Raymond Keith Foster, Keith Mfg. Co., and Keith Sales, Co. v. Hallco Manufacturing Co., Inc., and Olof A. Hallstrom

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that products sold after an earlier judgment could trigger claim preclusion if they were \essentially the same\ as those in the earlier suit
• stating that the facts relating to a defense do not in themselves constitute an independent claim
• noting that a “claim,” i.e., a cause of action, “is used in the sense of the facts giving rise to the suit”
• distinguishing Lear on the ground that it “did not consider the policy concerns evoked when preserving the finality of a judgment”
• applying Federal Circuit law to determine whether a decision was sufficiently final for issue preclusion to apply
• defining a claim as “a particular factual transaction or series thereof on which a suit is brought.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).