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Res Judicata Barred Subsequent Action To Quiet Title Because It Involved Essentially The Same Causes of Action As Asserted In An...

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Previously, this Blog examined the doctrine of res judicata (here, here, here and here). Under the doctrine, a party may not litigate a claim where a judgment on the merits exists from a prior action between the same parties...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Can Prior Acts Previously Adjudicated to Not Amount to Domestic Violence Be Raised in a Future Domestic Violence Proceeding?

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Sadly, it is not uncommon for parties to be “frequent flyers” in domestic violence court. Sometimes, the same party files and dismisses one or more times. Sometimes, parties settle with “civil restraints” or an Order in the...more

Perkins Coie

Judgment Against Plaintiffs’ Predecessors-in-Interest Fixed Tidelands Boundaries, Barring Plaintiffs’ Quiet Title and Inverse...

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The court of appeal held that plaintiffs’ inverse condemnation and damages claims based on dredging in the bay adjacent to their properties was barred under the doctrine of res judicata based on a 1931 judgment conclusively...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Fraud Unravels All – Even Post-Judgment

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English Supreme Court rules that there is no reasonable diligence requirement barring a fresh action to set aside a judgment obtained by fraud. Introduction - In Takhar v Gracefield Developments Limited and others...more

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Appellate Court Notes

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Supreme Court Advance Release Opinions: SC19359 - Persels & Associates, LLC v. Banking Commissioner - Noting that it has generally been the policy of the Courts to defer to the Legislature, especially as to the...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

B&B Hardware v. Hargis – What it Means and How it will Affect TTAB Litigation

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a decision that may significantly impact how Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) cases are litigated and whether potential litigants elect to forego TTAB litigation in certain...more

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