Palka v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that § 1983 claim failed where there was nothing suggesting that the “‘ratifying’ authority shared the unconstitutional motivation of the initial decisionmaker”
• holding that “res judicata prevents the relitigation of claims . . . that could have been litigated but were not”
• explaining that a prior judgment will have preclusive effect even when it is logistically difficult to bring it at the same time as the initial case, and that there are several ways to avoid res judicata in those circumstances
• explaining that a prior judgment will have preclusive effect even when it is logistically difficult to bring it at the same time as the initial case, and that there are several ways to avoid res judicata in those circumstances
• analyzing \the exceptions to res judicata outlined in the Restatement (Second) of Judgments\ in assessing federal claim preclusion
• “[T]o succeed on a ‘ratification’ theory ... a plaintiff must establish that the ‘ratifying’ authority shared the unconstitutional motivation of the initial decisionmaker.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).