In Re Jose Luis Aguilar Hernandez v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the conclusive effect of the prior judgment is not suspended by the pendency of defendant’s appeal
• applying FRCP 41(b), which is nearly identical to NRCP 41(b), to a dismissal based on a failure to attend a deposition to grant summary judgment in a second case on the basis of claim preclusion
• “where a judgment in one case has successfully been made the basis for a judgment in a second case, the second judgment will stand as res judicata, although the first judgment be subsequently reversed”
• where the U.S. Supreme Court declined to disturb a final judgment that was based on the res judicata effect of a decision subsequently reversed on appeal because of the potential risks to finality of judgments
• “Where a judgment in one case has successfully been made the basis for a judgment in a second case, the second judgment will stand as res judicata, although the first judgment be subsequently reversed”
• “What the appellate court would or could have done if an appeal from the judgment had been taken and had been heard in advance of the appeal from the decree is idle speculation[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).