Gossard v. Sampson

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that this doctrine is satisfied when there is “(1) a final judgment on the merits in a prior suit involving (2) the same parties or their privies and (3) a subsequent suit based on the same Court’s Rule 60(d
• res judicata bars not only claims that were brought in a previous action, but also claims that could have been brought
• “[A] plaintiff who asserts a different theory of recovery in a separate lawsuit cannot avoid claim preclusion when the events underlying the two suits are essentially the same.”
• “The prior judgment’s preclusive effect . . . extends . . . to the claims that the plaintiff brought in the first action [and] to any claims the plaintiff could have asserted in the previous lawsuit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).