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111568P.pdf   05/25/2012  The First National Bank  v.  First National Bank SD
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1568
                          and No:  11-1683
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Sioux Falls   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Trademarks. For the court's decision in an earlier suit between the parties, see First Nat'l Bank in Sioux Falls v. First Nat'l Bank, S.D., 153 F.3d 885 (8th Cir. 1998). Action here was not barred by the doctrine of res judicata because the new suit includes facts not common to the prior action; confusion log maintained by FNB Sioux Falls was inadmissible double hearsay, but its admission was harmless error and did not require reversal; district court's finding of a likelihood of confusion was based on a permissible view of the evidence and was not clearly erroneous; denial of attorneys' fees affirmed; portion of district court's amended Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law regarding possible appropriate names was not an advisory opinion that the names did not infringe plaintiff's marks.