Lucas v. County of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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• holding federal court’s dismissal of deliberate indifference claim did not constitute res judicata for plaintiffs section 845.6 claim, in part, because of differing knowledge requirements
• § 845.6 is 8 “limited to serious and obvious medical conditions requiring immediate care” (emphasis added)
• “Under California law, res judicata effect is determined on the basis of whether the prior federal judgment is based on the same primary right as the state action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).