Wilkes v. Wyoming Department of Employment Division of Labor Standards

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• holding that Title VII claim was barred where plaintiff neither sought a stay, nor attempted to amend after later receiving a right-to-sue letter
• holding that a Title VII lawsuit was barred by res judicata since plaintiff could have requested a right-to-sue letter or sought to stay a prior Equal Pay Act lawsuit pending completion of the EEOC administrative process
• holding judgment entered pursuant to Rule 68 Offer of Judgment 16 constitutes final judgment for purposes of res judicata
• finding that plaintiff’s new Title VII claim against employer was barred under claim preclusion because plaintiff had asserted a Fair Labor Standards Act claim in a prior suit against the same employer for the same employment relationship
• collecting cases for the proposition that “all claims arising from the same employment relationship constitute the same transaction or series of transactions for claim preclusion purposes” (citations omitted)
• under the transactional approach a cause of action includes all claims or legal theories of recovery that arise from the same transaction, event or occurrence

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