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- Title: Stamatakis Industries Inc. v. King
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 15, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge. Last fall we dismissed two appeals in this case because the district court had not resolved all of the issues. Stamatakis Industries, Inc. v. J. Walter Thompson, U.S.A., Inc., 944 F.2d 382 (7th Cir. 1991). That court has since entered final judgment on the federal claim and dismissed without prejudice all claims dependent on the supplemental jurisdiction. Frederick King's appeal from the court's election not to dispose of these claims on the merits is unavailing. Judges may bypass state claims once they have resolved the federal ones. The district Judge did not abuse that discretion, given ongoing litigation in state court presenting the same issues, Stamatakis Industries, Inc. v. King, 165 Ill. App. 3d 879, 520 N.E.2d 770, 117 Ill. Dec. 419 (1st Dist. 1987), and we say no more about King's appeal. Only four parties retain an interest in the litigation (thus the new caption), and we take up their federal dispute. In 1981 seven firms in Chicago provided color separations to the advertising industry. An advertising agency would supply photographs, artwork, and text plus a layout, from which the separator would make four color negatives (yellow, blue, red, and black) that were used to make the printing plates for color advertisements. Preparing the films called for precise filtering (to get the colors right) and exact registration (so that when the four plates were inked in sequence, the image would appear without blurring). Sometimes the ad agencies would hire art studios to retouch the films or add special effects missing from the copy supplied to the separators. Frederick King, the principal employee (and chairman of the board) of Premier Engraving, wanted to acquire a computer system to assist in reworking images in-house, but the price, then over $1 million, was too steep.