Thomas v. Michigan Employment Security Commission

How courts have described this case

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• res judicata bars subsequent action only where prior action was between the same parties and the same matter was litigated
• “The inclusion of the term ‘without prejudice’ in a judgment of dismissal ordinarily indicates the absence of a decision on the merits, and leaves the parties free to litigate the matter in a subsequent action, as though the dismissed action had not been commenced.”
• “The inclusion of the term ‘without prejudice’ in a judgment of dismissal ordinarily indicates the absence of a decision on the merits, and leaves the parties free to litigate the matter in a subsequent action, as though the dismissed action had not been commenced.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).