Legal Opinion
Keystone Shipping Co. v. New England Power Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 20, 1997No. 19-1802PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
This case involving an underlying dispute over who is to pay for some $14 million in repairs to a coal cargo ship requires us to resolve one question: whether claims asserted by defendant-appellee New England Power Company (“NEP”) against plaintiff-appellant Keystone Shipping Co. (“Keystone”) are arbitrable. We reach two conclusions pointing to the same result. First, because the issue has already been litigated by the parties in Massachusetts state court, it is precluded from relitigation under the doctrine of issue preclusion. Second, even if the issue were not…
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