Maldonado v. U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the court had subject matter jurisdiction before analyzing res judicata issue
• stating that “[b]ecause res judicata determinations are pure questions of law, we review them de novo,” but where privity was not at issue
• “Even though § 1252(a)(2)(C) would otherwise generally bar jurisdiction, we may consider [petitioner’s] res judicata challenge on the merits.”
• “A new claim is barred by res judicata if it is based on a legal theory that was or could have been used in the prior action.”
• “A new claim is barred by res judicata if it is based on a legal theory that was or could have been used in the prior action.”
• “It is by now hornbook law that the doctrine of res judicata bars the filing of claims which were raised or could have been raised in an earlier proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).