United States Eighth Circuit

In an appeal from the district court's order enjoining plaintiffs in a products liability class action from relitigating in state court the certification of a West Virginia class, the order is affirmed where: 1) the relitigation exception to the Anti-Injunction Act permitted an injunction barring relitigation in state court of a federal court's denial of class certification; and 2) plaintiffs were collaterally estopped by the federal denial of class certification from relitigating the issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/05/2010
• Published 01/05/2010

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, SMITH, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Charles Marion Love, IV, Marvin Wayne Masters, Richard Allen Monahan, Masters Law Firm, Charleston, WV, for Respondents-Appellants., Richard K. Dandrea, Eckert & Seamans, Pittsburgh, PA, Michael J. Farrell, Erik Legg, Tamela White, Farrell & Farrell, Huntington, WV, Douglas R. Marvin, Williams & Connolly, Paul John Zidlicky, Sidley & Austin, Washington, DC, Peter W. Sipkins, Elizabeth S. Wright, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, Catherine Valerio Barrad, Sidley & Austin, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellee., Hope S. Freiwald, Robert A. Limbacher, Fred T. Magaziner, Dechert Law Firm, Philadelphia, PA, Scott A. Smith, Tracy Joan Van Steenburgh, Halleland & Lewis, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendants.