Francis X. McLaughlin v. Benjamin C. Bradlee (Two Cases)

How courts have described this case

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

• “[O]nce a court has decided an issue of fact or law necessary to its judgment, that decision may preclude relitigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action involving a party to the first case.” (quoting Allen v. McCurry, 449 U.S. 90, 94 (1980))
• discussing rejection of “mutuality” restriction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).