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· 7/1/1997

King v. Union Oil Co. of California

Citations

  • 117 F.3d 443
  • 21 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1348
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 16107
  • 71 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 44,846
  • 1997 WL 361133

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that employer’s termination of employee and subsequent refusal to pay severance benefits were part of a “series of connected transactions” such that discrimination and retaliation claims barred subsequent claim for benefits
  • “Res judicata, or claim preclusion, precludes a party or its privies from relitigating issues that were or could have been raised in an earlier action, provided that the earlier action proceeded to a final judgment on the merits.”

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Judges: Tacha, Lucero, Daniel

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