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AVX CORP. v. CABOT CORP.

No. 04-2656.

424 F.3d 28 (2005)

AVX CORPORATION and AVX Limited, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. CABOT CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 13, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evan Slavitt with whom Bodoff & Slavitt LLP was on brief for appellants.

Robert S. Frank, Jr. with whom Brian A. Davis, Terrence M. Schwab and Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP were on brief for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and Siler, Senior Circuit Judge.

BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

This appeal, raising an interesting res judicata issue, grows out of two law suits between essentially the same parties: AVX Corporation and AVX Limited (collectively, "AVX"), and Cabot Corporation ("Cabot").1 AVX makes electronic components and other products in which the metallic element tantalum is sometimes employed. Cabot purchases tantalum, converts it into powder or wire, and sells these products to manufacturers...

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