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· 11/8/2002

DiBattista v. State

Citations

  • 808 A.2d 1081
  • 2002 R.I. LEXIS 193
  • 2002 WL 31500824

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that under res judicata, \a party defeated in one action may not maintain a later lawsuit based upon a ground that properly could have been asserted in the previous litigation\
  • affirming that a party asserting a claim involving negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress may not rely upon unsupported conclusory assertions of physical ills, but rather, must produce evidence of the requisite physical manifestations of their alleged emotional distress
  • “[A]ll claims arising from the same transaction or series of transactions which could have properly been raised in a previous litigation are barred from a later action.”
  • “Res judicata serves as an absolute bar to a second cause of action where there exists identity of parties, identity of issues, and finality of judgment in an earlier action.”

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Judges: Williams, Lederberg, Flanders, Goldberg

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