Civil Procedure

Question 1

Claim Preclusion (Res Judicata)

Answer 1

1. Valid final judgment on the merits
2. Sufficiently identical claims in the second suit as the first suit (either same claim or a claim that should have been brought up in the first suit because they are part of the same transaction or series of transaction as the original claim)
3. Sufficiently identical parties - parties in the second suit were the same parties in the first suit