R/S FINANCIAL CORP. v. Kovalchick

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a petition to open a default judgment has preclusive effect
• explaining that claim preclusion applies to claims that “could have been litigated during the first proceeding if they were part of the same cause of action”
• “Any final valid judgment on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction precludes any future suit between the parties or their privies on the same cause of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).