· 3/27/2008
Geiger v. Foley Hoag LLP Retirement Plan
Citations
- 521 F.3d 60
- 45 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1913
- 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 6353
- 2008 WL 802516
How courts have described this case
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- holding that district court did not abuse discretion by summarily granting intervention where \record amply demonstrate[d] that [intervenor] satisfied the requirements of Rule 24(a)\
- stating that the Rooker–Feldman doctrine, “in broad terms, deprives the district court of subject matter jurisdiction over a final judgment of a state court”
- finding that litigation was not at an “advanced stage” because there had not been “any discovery or substantive legal progress”
- rejecting the defendant’s argument that the proposed intervenor’s motion was untimely where “the case had not progressed beyond the initial stages when the motion was filed”
- Claim preclusion \applies even if the litigant is prepared to present different evidence ... in the second action\
- Claim preclusion “applies even if the litigant is prepared to present different evidence . . . in the second action”
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Judges: Lipez, Cyr, Howard
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