Rowland v. Harrison

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• holding that Maryland’s counterclaim rule, which states that parties “may interpose a claim as a counterclaim[,]” by “its plain terms, is permissive and not mandatory.”
• giving examples of enjoining enforcement of a previous judgment or depriving the plaintiff in the first action of rights vested in him under the first judgment
• “[W] ‘the Maryland Rules of Procedure do not speak of 24 compulsory counterclaims, our broad definition of res judicata will, in many cases, have the same effect.’”

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