Kane v. Town of Harpswell (In Re Kane)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a prior judgment was final “even where the first [judgment] is still on appeal”
• noting that, when determining the preclusive effects of prior judgments, the federal courts “tend to follow the general approach of the Restatement (Second) of Judgments (1982)”
• an installment land sales contract is not an executory contract “if under applicable state law and the particular transaction, the contract is in essence a sale and financing device”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).