Jordan v. Kansas City

How courts have described this case

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• holding the Neighborhood and Community Services Department could not be sued
• collecting Missouri cases and stating, “[a] trial court’s dismissal of an action on the basis of the statute of limitations is a final adjudication on the merits for purposes of res judicata”
• “quality of the person” exists if a defendant‟s “status” is the same in both suits
• “quality of the person” exists if a defendant’s “status” is the same in both suits
• “The doctrine [of res judicata] is based upon the principle that a party should not be able to relitigate, in a second proceeding, a claim which was, or which should have been, litigated in a previous proceeding.”
• municipal departments cannot be sued unless statutorily so authorized

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).