Howe v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

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• stating that res judicata applies to “claims or defenses that might have been litigated”
• a declaratory judgment is a final decision on the merits which can have res judica-ta effect
• res judicata precludes subsequent suits not only as to every matter litigated, but also as to every claim or defense which might have been litigated.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).