Josefina Legnani v. Alitalia Linee Aeree Italiane, S.P.A., (Alitalia Airlines)

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• holding that res judicata does not bar employee’s Title VII retaliatory discharge action
• “[A] reasonable doubt as to what was decided in the first action should preclude the drastic remedy of foreclosing a party from litigating an essential issue.” (quoting McNellis v. First Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass’n, 364 F.2d 251, 257 (2d Cir. 1966)
• “When Legnani filed her 1995 [Title VII] action, she had not yet been discharged from Alitalia. She could not have brought the retaliatory discharge action at that time and, accordingly, she was free to bring her retaliatory discharge claim in this subsequent action.”

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