Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants/cross-Appellees v. Gerald Born, and Thomas Schleitwiler

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• imposing sanctions under Rule 11 because “it should have been obvious to any lawyer that relief was barred on multiple grounds, including res judicata [and] judicial estoppel”
• “For the sake of law’s stability, a court will not reexamine a recent decision … unless given a compelling reason to do so.”
• sanctions merited for filing federal claims already resolved by prior litigation
• sanctions merited for filing federal claims already resolved by prior litigation
• “[T]hat earlier ruling was the law of the case, and if the plaintiffs 20 wanted us to depart from it they had to acknowledge the ruling and give reasons for 21 our abandoning it. This they had failed to do . . . .”

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