Fiscus v. Beartooth Electric Cooperative, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that when we state in an opinion “a principle or rule of law necessary to the decision, such pronouncement becomes the law of the case, and must be adhered to throughout its subsequent progress”
• concluding that when we state in an opinion “a principle or rule of law necessary to the decision, such pronouncement becomes the law of the case, and must be adhered to throughout its subsequent progress”
• noting that “the doctrine is inapplicable” where the prior decision was manifestly “unsound, . . . incorrect,” or based on a manifest “mistake of fact . . . made on [the] first appeal”
• Judgment reduced on its merit is an absolute bar to a subsequent action between same parties
• Judgment reduced on its merits is an absolute bar to a subsequent action between the same parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).