Cinema 5, Ltd. v. Cinerama, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that if there is concurrent representation, disqualification is not required if the attorney shows no diminution in the vigor of his representation of either client
• disqualifying an attorney who was a partner at two firms that represented clients on opposing sides of the same litigation
• upholding disqualification of a law firm that was representing the plaintiff in an antitrust matter but had a partner who was representing the defendant in separate but “somewhat similar” litigation, id. at 1385
• lawyer may not represent one client against another currently represented client even if matters unrelated
• attorney for plaintiff disqualified since attorney’s firm represents defendant in factually related case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).