Harriet Walczak v. Chicago Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “the Board did nothing to signal acquiescence to Walczak’s claim-splitting” because “the Board raised its preclusion defense as soon as Walezak brought her ADEA claim in the second suit’
• clarifying that “[c]laim preclusion applies not only to matters that were actually decided in the original action but also to matters that could have been decided”
• finding the same set of underlying facts in plaintiff’s administrate review claim regarding her termination and her ADEA claim based on the same termination
• affirming dismissal based on claim-splitting where “Walczak could have brought her ADEA claim in conjunction with her state-court suit for judicial review of the Board’s decision to terminate her employment”
• “Claim preclusion applies not only to matters that were actually decided in the original action but also to matters that could have been decided.”
• “Claim preclusion applies not only to matters that were actually decided in the original action[,] but also matters that could have been decided.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).