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· 3/25/1940

United States v. Shuman

Citations

  • 1 F.R.D. 251
  • 1940 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1916

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that the full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution requires Ohio to give another state’s court proceedings the same “credit” as that proceeding would carry in the state’s own courts
  • “The previous action is conclusive for all claims that were or that could have been litigated in the first action.”
  • full faith and credit implicates the doctrine of res judicata because full faith and credit only requires courts to enforce judgments as the other court would enforce

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Judges: Watkins

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