Fox v. Security National

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that if plaintiffs had raised their claims in the prior action, “they may have been a complete defense”
• holding res judicata barred RICO claims that could have been raised in a prior foreclosure action because they “would impair rights that were established in the [prior] action”
• reasoning that the Oklahoma state court could have heard a RICO claim
• laying out identical approach for interpreting Rule 13 of the Oklahoma Rules of Civil Procedure
• holding, in applying Oklahoma law where Oklahoma has a compulsory counterclaim rule identical to the federal rule, that “ ‘[flailure to plead a compulsory counterclaim prevents a party from bringing a later independent action on that claim’ ”
• explaining that the Full Faith and Credit statute requires a federal court to “ascertain what preclusive effect Oklahoma would give its own decision before we may know what effect it should have been given in the federal court”

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