B & B HARDWARE v. HARGIS INDUSTRIES

No. 13-352.

135 S.Ct. 1293 (2015)

B & B HARDWARE, INC., Petitioner v. HARGIS INDUSTRIES, INC., dba Sealtite Building Fasteners, dba East Texas Fasteners et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 24, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Jay , Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Neal K. Katyal , Washington, DC, for Respondents.

John F. Bash for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the Petitioner.

Trey Yarbrough , Yarbrough Wilcox, PLLC, Tyler, TX, James C. Martin , Colin E. Wrabley , Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, Neal Kumar Katyal , Counsel of Record, Catherine E. Stetson , Mary Helen Wimberly , Colleen E. Roh , Eugene A. Sokoloff , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Robert D. Carroll , Christine Dieter , Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA, Ira J. Levy , Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, NY, William M. Jay , Counsel of Record, Jacob R. Osborn , Goodwin Protecter LLP, Washington, DC, Tim Cullen , Cullen & Co., PLLC, Little Rock, AR, for Petitioner.


Sometimes two different tribunals are asked to decide the same issue. When that happens, the decision of the first tribunal usually must be followed by the second, at least if the issue is really the same. Allowing the same issue to be decided more than once wastes litigants' resources and adjudicators...

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