Rose Torres, D.B.A. Legal Secretarial Services v. Steve Rebarchak

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the defendant waives the rule against claim splitting if the defendant fails to interpose a timely objection
• “Because an Illinois state court rendered the ... order at issue, we must apply Illinois law to determine whether res judicata bars [the] claims.”
• under Illinois law, “res judicata applies even if the dismissal was the result of a settlement or compromise between the parties”
• “Illinois law is clear that a dismissal with prejudice is a final adjudication on the merits . . . .”
• “The defendants nevertheless claim that . . . the rule against claim splitting bars a subsequent suit even if the earlier claims were dismissed without prejudice. We do not agree.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).