Martha POE, Appellant, v. JOHN DEERE COMPANY, Appellee

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• concluding federal law governed the issue of res judicata because the court was tasked with determining the effect of a judgment rendered by a federal court on a claim arising under federal law
• concluding federal law governed the issue of res judicata because the court was tasked with determining the effect of a judgment rendered by a federal court on a claim arising under federal law
• applying res judicata to bar second action where the “thrust of both cases is [the same,]” regardless of the plaintiff’s “attempt to apply different legal labels to the facts” of the first case
• “It is of course within a court’s discretion to deny costs because a plaintiff is poor.”
• “[W]e have looked to whether or not proof of the same facts will support both actions, or to whether the wrong for which redress is sought is the same in both actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).