Sleeper v. HOBAN FAMILY PARTNERSHIP

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining “cause of action collectively to refer to all theories on which relief could be claimed on the basis of the factual transaction in question” (quotation omitted)
• applicability of res judicata is a question of law that we review de novo
• “Res judicata will bar a second action even though the plaintiff is prepared in the second action to present evidence or grounds or theories of the case not presented in the first action.”
• “Res judicata precludes the litigation in a later case of matters actually decided, and matters that could have been litigated, in an earlier action between the same parties for the same cause of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).