L-Tec Electronics Corporation v. Cougar Electronic Organization, Inc. Sol Mayer and Dan Reich, Individually and D/B/A Cougar Electronic Organization

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that claims were barred by res judicata when plaintiff’s “new claims [were] based on different legal theories rather than different facts and, accordingly, could have been raised in the original complaint”
• concluding that claims were barred by res judicata when plaintiff’s “new claims [were] based on different legal theories rather than different facts and, accordingly, could have been raised in the original complaint”
• applying doctrine of res judicata to dismiss new claims against previous defendants who had already been dismissed from the case in a final judgment on the merits
• affirming dismissal on res judicata grounds where the operative “facts and events themselves arose prior to the filing of the original complaint. . . [it is] only [plaintiff’s] awareness of the facts that came later.”
• “All of the new claims arise out of the same factual predicate as the old claims.”
• “The new claims are based on different legal theories rather than different facts and, accordingly, could have been raised in the original complaint.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).