Charles PURTER, Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary Dept. of Health and Human Services

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• observing that “the doctrine of administrative res judicata ... has not evolved into a rigid system that is to be blindly applied in every context”
• finding that an applicant presented new and material evidence to merit reconsideration of his earlier claims
• discussing the Doctrine of Res Judicata and its dual preclusion concepts of issue preclusion and claim preclusion
• “Claim preclusion refers to the preclusive effect of a judgment in barring relitigation of the same causes of action.”
• “when res judicata is applied in the context of administrative proceedings under the Act, it is not encrusted with the rigid finality that characterizes its application in purely judicial proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).