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Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. Maryland and Napue v.
Brownback , 22-912 Issue : Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s judgment bar, which this court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-law doctrine of res judicata, nevertheless operates to bar claims brought together in the same action. ” (relisted after the Sept. 13 conferences) King v. Maryland and Napue v.
In government-facing litigation, the government’s petition in Becerra v. We finish with good old private litigation. City of Chicago, Illinois , 20-1214. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit failed to appropriately reweigh the aggravating factors against the mitigating ones. CVS Pharmacy Inc. Pivotal Software v. Tran , 20-1541.
Abbott , involving a challenge to the use of nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to hold that issues resolved in bellwether tort trials bind the defendant in later cases. The court finally denied review on Nov. 20 in six-time relist E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Remarkably, six petitions still remain from the long conference.
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