John Smentek v. Thomas Dart

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• \A standard definition of 'comity' is 'the respect that sovereign nations (or quasi-sovereigns such as the states of the United States) owe each other.\
• “unlike res judicata, [comity] is a doctrine that does not require but merely permits preclusion”

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