Legal Opinion
A. v. Costantini v. Trans World Airlines and Does I Through Xc
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 22, 1982No. 80-4239PublishedCited by 316 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Costantini appeals from the district court’s judgment dismissing his complaint as barred by res judicata. Because we agree that res judicata bars the instant lawsuit, we affirm.
Appellant operates a travel agency business in the San Francisco bay area. In 1972, he entered into a license agreement with Montgomery Ward & Co. [“Ward”] that permitted him to open branch offices in Ward stores nationwide. He opened one such branch office in June 1972 and secured approvals from the Air Traffic Conference of America [“ATC”], a division of the Air Transport…
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