· 12/4/1967
Garvin v. Childers
Citations
- 389 U.S. 971
- 88 S. Ct. 469
How courts have described this case
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- holding that exclusion of evidence should seldom be granted unless bad faith is involved
- affirming district court’s dismissal, where “a disposition of a Title VII action as untimely filed is a decision on the merits for purposes of res judicata.”
- “[T]he prior judgment in the Title VII suit barred the section 1981 suit against the same parties or their privies.”
- Title VII claim barred later § 1981 claim based on same wrongful termination
- Where two claims “emerge from the same transaction and share precisely the same nucleus of operative facts,” a litigant “may not assert them serially, in successive actions, but must advance all at once on pain of bar.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
- prior Title VII claim barred § 1981 claim
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