City of Houston, the Civil Service Commission for Municipal Employees of the City of Houston and Todd Johnson v. Uyless L. Jones

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• holding that a plaintiff who was precluded from asserting his own claims against a defendant because of a final judgment in prior litigation could nonetheless proceed with identical claims against same defendant that had been assigned to him by a non-party to prior litigation
• applying federal claim preclusion inquiry into Nos. 03-2734 & 03-3427 11 the “identity of claims, identity of parties, and a prior final judgment on the merits,” also known as the transactional test
• “Since [the subrogor] had the right to bring his own claim, that is what he conveyed to [the subro- gee] in the assignment.”
• “Since [the subrogor] had the right to bring his own claim, that is what he conveyed to [the subro- gee] in the assignment.”

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