Bristol Bay Productions, LLC v. Lampack

150 The doctrine of issue preclusion should not deprive plaintiff Bristol Bay of its opportunity to litigate whether defendants Simon & Schuster and Penguin (collectively "the Publishers") caused Bristol Bay harm by misrepresenting data related to author Clive Cussler's readership, books in print, and books sold.

1 51 The final judgment in the California fraud case between Bristol Bay and defendants Cussler and Cussler's agent, Peter Lampack, only determined that Bristol Bay's reliance on misrepresentations made by Cus-sler himself, and by Cussler through Lam-pack, were not a "substantial…