Mark Manicki v. Brian Zeilmann and City of Ottawa

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “There is no duty to warn a prospective adversary of the defenses you will interpose if he carries out his threat to sue you.”
• “‘Privity’ in this context means that because the parties have by virtue of contract or otherwise identical interests, a claim or defense by one is equivalent to a claim or defense by all.”
• “[T]he Supreme Court of Illinois made clear that ... a plaintiff is not permitted to slice up his claim into little pieces and make each the subject of a separate lawsuit based on slightly different evidence.”
• employing this same test under Illinois law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).