United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of a complaint by a purported class alleging antitrust violations by defendants, credit card companies and banks, is affirmed where issue preclusion barred plaintiffs from re-litigating a determination that their price-fixing claims were properly released, and, alternatively, plaintiffs' claims were extinguished by a settlement in another case.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2005
• Decided 03/27/2006
• Published 03/27/2006

Judges

• BEA, Circuit Judge., Before BETTY B. FLETCHER, DAVID R. THOMPSON, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James A. Kopcke, Golden & Kopcke, San Francisco, CA, and Richard J. Archer, Archer & Hanson, Occidental, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. Laurence Popofsky, Marie L. Fiala & Jonathan R. Dowell, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Visa U.S.A. Inc., Jay N. Fastow, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, for defendant-appellee MasterCard International Inc., Paula Quintiliani & Robert L. Stolebarger, Holme, Roberts & Owen L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, and R. Steward Baird, Jr., Office of the General Counsel Wells Fargo Law Department, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Sonya D. Winner, Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Bank of America, N.A., Maurice J. McSweeney& Michael Lueder, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, and Eileen R. Ridley, Foley & Lardner, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee U.S. Bank, N.A.