Nowak v. St. Rita High School

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the judgment in the first suit operates as an estoppel on the issue actually litigated and determined
• stating that “the dismissal for failure to state a claim is an adjudication on the merits”
• explaining that the judgment in the first suit operates as an estoppel on the issue actually litigated and determined
• stating collateral estoppel “must be narrowly tailored to fit the precise facts and issues that were clearly determined in the prior judgment”
• “Res judicata will not be applied where it would be fundamentally unfair to do so.”
• “[b]y declining jurisdiction over the plaintiff’s pendent state claim *** the district court in effect reserved plaintiff’s right to pursue the matter in state court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).