Lisa Barr v. Board of Trustees of Western

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that despite some differences, “both suits arise out of the same main event: the University’s decision not to retain [plaintiff] on its faculty.”
• holding that a dismissal for failure to prosecute has preclusive effect
• finding that a plaintiff’s new theory for the reason behind their termination did not affect the res judicata analysis because “both suits arise out of the same main event”
• “[T]he requirement to exhaust administrative remedies is no excuse for claim-splitting in [the employment- discrimination] context.”
• “[T]wo claims are one for purposes of res judicata if they are based on the same, or nearly the same, factual allegations.” (quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]wo claims are one for purposes of res judicata if they are based on the same, or nearly the same, factual allegations.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).