McArdle v. Tronetti

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that, under Pennsylvania law, “res judicata generally is thought to turn on the essential similarity of the underlying events giving rise to the various legal claims”
• finding a lack of identity between two sets of claims-federal constitutional violations and state law gross negligence-because they involved distinct factual allegations and elements
• noting that conclusion is consistent with Restatement (Second
• noting that conclusion is consistent with Restatement (Second
• “As to the identity of eause[s] of action, rather than resting upon the specific legal theory invoked, res judicata generally is thought to turn on the essential similarity of the underlying events giving rise to the various legal claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).