Kesterson v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Notwithstanding a dismissal ‘without prejudice,’ the common law doctrine of claim preclusion may present an instance where the civil action is ‘otherwise barred.’ ”
• “Res judicata, a Latin phrase meaning ‘a thing adjudicated,’ prohibits a party from bringing a previously litigated claim.”
• res judicata “precludes a litigant from bringing, in a subsequent lawsuit, claims that should have been brought in the first suit” (emphasis in original
• “Only this outcome upholds the purpose of the claim splitting defense: to ‘prevent a multiplicity of suits and appeals with respect to a single cause of action’ and ‘to protect defendants against fragmented litigation, which is vexatious and costly.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).