ACTION TOWING/RENTAL v. U-HAUL INTERN

Full title: ACTION TOWING AND RENTAL ET AL. v. U-HAUL INTERNATIONAL ET AL

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit

Date published: Oct 26, 1984

452 So. 2d 183 (La. Ct. App. 1984)

Opinion

No. CA 2039.

May 1, 1984. Rehearing Denied July 24, 1984. Writ Denied October 26, 1984.

APPEAL FROM CIVIL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE RICHARD J. GANUCHEAU, J.

Russell A. Solomon, Jacques F. Bezou, New Orleans, for plaintiffs.

Howard E. Sinor, Jr., Charles W. Lane, III, Richard J. Tyler, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere Denegre, New Orleans, for defendants.

Before REDMANN, C.J., and AUGUSTINE and WILLIAMS, JJ.

REDMANN, Chief Judge.

A final federal court judgment in an antitrust action precludes a later state court proceeding under the state's antitrust statute based on the same alleged wrong. Woods Exploration Pro. Co. v. Aluminum Co. of America, 438 F.2d 1286 (5 Cir. 1971), cert. denied 404 U.S. 1047, 92 S.Ct. 701, 30 L.Ed.2d 736 (1972).

Reversed; action dismissed at plaintiffs' cost.