ANDREW ROBINSON INTERN. v. HARTFORD FIRE INS.

No. 08-1255.

547 F.3d 48 (2008)

ANDREW ROBINSON INTERNATIONAL, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 10, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack P. Milgram, with whom Law Offices of Jack P. Milgram was on brief, for appellants.

Felicia H. Ellsworth, with whom Mark C. Fleming and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP were on brief, for appellee.

Before HOWARD, BALDOCK, and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity case, and the parties agree that Massachusetts law controls. The hostilities initially took the form of a garden-variety insurance dispute—but the case has now morphed into an interesting question about the preclusive effect (if any) of a declaratory judgment on a subsequent action for damages arising out of the same nucleus of operative facts. The district court determined that a final judgment in the original declaratory...

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