Mascia v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “a court on notice that it has previously decided an issue may dismiss the action sua sponte, consistent with the res judicata policy of avoiding judicial waste”
• stating that court-approved settlements “receive[ ] the same res judicata effect as a litigated judgment
• the trustee is ordinarily the appropriate party to seek equitable subordination on behalf of the estate and unsecured creditors
• \The Trustee is ordinarily the appropriate party to seek equitable subordination on behalf of the estate and unsecured creditors.\
• ‘Privity may be established by identification of interests, even where representation of those interests is not authorized.’
• generally a _______ court-approved settlement receives the same res judicata effect as a litigated judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).