Q International Courier, Incorporated v. Glenn Smoak Jack L. Wuerker Brendan Kennedy Dennis Cornelius Tim Gay & Associates, Pc

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• holding that, in determining preclusive effect of judgment in former case, a court should apply the res judicata law of the state where the federal district court sat in the first action
• holding that “the law that would be applied by state courts in the State in which the first diversity court sits determines the claim-preclusive effect of the judgment rendered in the first action” (cleaned up)
• holding that a federal court sitting in diversity must determine the preclusive effect of a prior judgment rendered by another federal court previously sitting in diversity by referring to the claim preclusion rules of the forum of the court in the first action
• finding Virginia's claim preclusion law was \not incompatible with any federal interest\ when state law would bar the plaintiff from relitigating a \common core of operative facts\
• identifying four inquiries courts generally consider in determining whether a counterclaim is compulsory
• “(2) whether res judicata would bar a subsequent suit on the counterclaim absent the compulsory counterclaim rule[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).