Shirley Clark v. Haas Group, Inc.

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• concluding that res judicata bared a second suit brought against the same employer alleging age discrimination and violations of the Equal Pay Act, where the first suit pursuant the FLSA to recover unpaid overtime had been previously settled
• holding plaintiff’s second suit was barred by claim preclusion because “the ‘claims’ in each case were predicated on [plaintiff’s] employment”
• explaining that because “the doctrine of res judicata precludes 8 parties from relitigating issues that were or could have been raised, parties cannot defeat its application by simply alleging new legal theories” (emphasis added)
• noting that Fed.R.Civ.P. 8 provides for alternative pleading
• “We have adopted the transactional approach of the Restatement [Second] of Judgments ... to determine what is a single ‘cause of action.’ ”
• “[T]he stipulated, voluntary dismissal of Clark’s first suit, approved by the court with prejudice, was a judgment on the merits.”

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