Sensormatic Security Corp. v. Sensormatic Electronics Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the doctrine of claim splitting applies to bar a plaintiff from filing a new lawsuit after the court in an earlier action denied leave to amend the complaint to add those claims”
• “This rule against duplicative litigation, also referred to as ‘claim splitting,’ is the other action pending facet of the res judicata doctrine.”
• “Thus, when a suit is pending in federal court, a plaintiff has no right to assert another action on the same subject in the same court, against the same defendant at the same time.”
• “[W]hen a suit is pending in federal court, a plaintiff has no right to assert another action on the same subject in the same court, against the same defendant at the same time.” (quoting Curtis)
• “Thus, when a suit is pending in federal court, a plaintiff has no right to assert another action ‘on the same subject in the same court, against the same defendant at the same time.’” (quoting Curtis v. Citibank, N.A., 226 F.3d 133, 138–39 (2d Cir. 2000))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).