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· 3/7/1983

James E. Hernandez v. City of Lafayette and Kenneth J. Bowen, Mayor

Citations

  • 699 F.2d 734
  • 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 29894

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “The changed circumstances must be ‘significant’ and must cre- ate ‘new legal conditions.’”
  • “A federal court, asked to give res judicata effect to a state court judgment, must apply the res judicata principals of the law of the state whose decision is set up as a bar to further litigation.”

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Judges: Clark, Politz, Higginbotham

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