Sparkman Learning Center v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

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• stating that very little evidence is required to raise a genuine issue of fact regarding motive and concluding that summary judgment on the merits is ordinarily inappropriate once a prima facie case has been established
• “Applying Arkansas law, we conclude that [the newly-added plaintiff] is in privity with [the original plaintiff organization] as its executive director .... Therefore, the fifth element of claim preclusion is satisfied even with the addition of new parties.”
• “It is well established that claim-splitting is discouraged. All claims must be brought together, and cannot be parsed out to be heard by different courts.”
• Litigants may \not bring claims before a federal court that were already fully decided by state courts in what would amount to appellate review of the state court ruling.\ (citations omitted)

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