W. H. Glover Co. v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiff’s prior small claims court judgment, brought to recover “monies arising out of nonpayment of wages,” was claim preclusive as to subsequent FLSA and New York Labor Law claims
• finding that a district court “properly took judicial notice of documents” in a state court action to analyze the preclusive effect of that court’s holdings
• noting that “[t]he district court properly took judicial notice of documents indicating the claims [plaintiff] brought in small claims court, the remedies she sought, and the judgment she was awarded”
• affirming dismissal on claim preclusion grounds where district court “took judicial notice of documents indicating the claims [the plaintiff] brought [in the prior action], the remedies she sought, and the judgment she was awarded”
• “Under New York law a default judgment has res judicata effect equal to that of a judgment on the merits.” (citation modified)
• “The district court properly took judicial notice of documents indicating the claims [the plaintiff] brought in small claims court, the remedies she sought, and the judgment she was awarded.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).