Johnson v. GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• questioning the rationale of Alvarez, but reversing on other grounds and “leav[ing] resolution of these important issues to another day”
• applying California’s primary rights doctrine to determine preclusive effect of federal court decisions
• “Although [the prior judgments] are decisions by a federal court, because the district 11 court was exercising diversity jurisdiction, California law determines their preclusive effect.”
• a 7 court may refer to the entire record to determine issues decided 8 in earlier case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).