U.S. Industries, Inc. v. Blake Construction Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that the part of a prior judgment affirmed on appeal is final for claim preclusion purposes
• noting that, generally, a plaintiff must \present in one suit all the claims for relief that he may have arising out of the same transaction or occurrence\
• adopting “the Restatement (Second) of Judgments’ pragmatic, transactional approach,” which “reflects a trend ‘in the direction of requiring that a plaintiff present in one suit all the claims for relief that he may have arising out of the same transaction or occurrence’”
• a plaintiff must generally “present in one suit all the claims for relief that he may have arising out of the same transaction or occurrence”
• claim for attorneys fees precluded by failure to bring with action on merits, despite argument that fees accrued at later time
• “[W]e can discern no material differences in the District of Columbia’s law of res judicata and the federal common law of res judicata.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).