Ralph Licari v. City of Chicago, Miriam Santos, Richard J. Jones, Walter K. Knorr and Charles R. Loftus, in Their Individual and Official Capacities

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• noting that government a nd its officers are generally in privity for res judicata
• involving Chicago Retirement Board members who were not named in state review of administrative decision
• federal courts must give state court judg- ments same preclusive effect they would have in state court
• “A two year statute of limitations applies to section 1988 claims in Illinois.”
• “Additionally, and significantly, for purposes of a section 1983 action, the rule of res judicata applies to those issues actually litigated as well as those that could have been but were not litigated in the state court proceedings.”

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