Mostofi v. Midland Funding, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, because a judgment entered against a debtor in a collection case was not a void judgment, a new claim was barred by res judicata and the judgment could not be collaterally attacked in the subsequent action
• “When a party is sued, and that party could bring a permissive counterclaim, he or she is not required to ‘raise or waive’ that counterclaim unless successful prosecution of it would nullify the other party’s claim.”
• “When a party is sued, and that party could bring a permissive counterclaim, he or she is not required to ‘raise or waive’ that counterclaim unless successful prosecution of it would nullify the other party's claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).