Alden v. Fitts

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a suit based on constitutional violations is proper only where prospective relief is sought against the state
• explaining that res judicata, in a strict sense, means claim preclusion but is now seen as “an umbrella doctrine” containing both issue preclusion and claim preclusion
• addressing state due process claim in the context of whether Appellants’ position with AOC as tenured or “at-will”
• stating res judicata “prohibits the relitigation of claims that were litigated or could have been litigated between the same parties in a prior action”
• “The doctrine of issue preclusion is properly asserted by a person who was not a party to the former action nor in privity with such a party.” (citations and internal quotations omitted)
• applying Restatement (Second) of Judgments, § 26

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).