Necessary v. Bowen

How courts have described this case

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• alleging conspiracy with respect to claims adjudicated in state court was held insufficient to defeat application of res judicata
• “A counterclaim may entitle the defendant in the original action to some amount of affirmative relief; a defense merely precludes or diminishes the plaintiff’s recovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).