Stan Lee Media, Inc. v. Walt Disney Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a court may “take judicial notice of documents and docket materials filed in other courts”
• explaining the universally held rule that a court's conclusion that the plaintiff fails to state a claim is a judgment on the merits
• “[D]ismissal for failure to plead a viable cause of action is a decision on the merits” which satisfies the second prong of the issue preclusion analysis
• To invoke issue preclusion, the party asserting it must establish that “the issue previously decided is identical with the one presented in the action in question.” (emphasis original)
• “[T]he court can take judicial notice of a fact that is not subject to reasonable dispute because it can be accurately and readily determined from sources whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned.” (ellipses and internal quotation marks omitted)
• identifying the elements for collateral estoppel

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