Medelius Rodriguez v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Service

How courts have described this case

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• “Res judicata bars a claim that could have been brought in a prior suit ... but was not.”
• “[A]n action based on the same nucleus of facts . . . is said to share the same cause of action, and therefore is barred by res judicata, even if the latter action is predicated on a different legal theory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).