Massengill v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the doctrine of res judicata did not bar a cause of action filed in state court following a federal lawsuit because the federal court declined to exercise its pendent jurisdiction over the plaintiff’s tort claims grounded in state law
• holding: res judicata not applicable to bar plaintiff’s state law tort claims where federal court had declined to exercise pendent jurisdiction over those claims
• rejecting the application of collateral estoppel in an action involving multiple claims because the jury returned a general verdict
• “Collateral estoppel operates to bar a second suit between the same parties and their privies on a different cause of action only as to issues which were actually litigated and determined in the former suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).