O/Y FINNLINES, LTD., ET AL.

v.

BUTLER

Citator

Cited By (22 total)

• LEE v. City OF Peoria, 685 F.2d 196 (7th Cir. 1982)
  …y the decision of the state circuit court under res judicata. Our decision is supported by a similar decision by the Fifth Circuit on very similar facts. In Jennings v. Caddo Parish School Board, 531 F. 2d 1331 (5th Cir.) (per curiam), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 897, 97 S.Ct. 260, 50 L.Ed.2d 180 (1976), the appellant was a former school teacher who had filed a section 1983 suit in the district court claiming her discharge was the product of racial discrimination. Prior to filing of the suit, the school board af…
• NEW Jersey Educ. Ass'n v. Burke, 579 F.2d 764 (3d Cir. 1978)
  …8 (5th Cir. 1975) (plaintiff allowed to challenge zoning ordinance as unconstitutional, despite his prior attempt to overturn it on state grounds in state court), with Jennings v. Caddo Parish School Bd., 531 F. 2d 1331 (5th Cir. 1976) cert. denied, 429 U.S. 897, 97 S.Ct. 260, 50 L.Ed.2d 180 (dictum) (prior state court judgment conclusive as to issues which might have been litigated); Cornwell v. Ferguson, 545 F. 2d 1022 (5th Cir. 1977) (same). Similarly, in reviewing applicable precedents, the Sixth Circu…
• Henry v. First Nat'l Bank OF Clarksdale, 595 F.2d 291 (5th Cir. 1979)
  …arily submits a federal claim to a state court is thereafter bound by the decision of the state court. See, e. g., Cornwell v. Ferguson, 5 Cir., 1977, 545 F. 2d 1022; Jennings v. Caddo Parish School Board, 5 Cir., 1976, 531 F. 2d 1331, cert. denied, 429 U.S. 897, 97 S.Ct. 260, 50 L.Ed.2d 180 (1976); Brown v. Chastain, 5 Cir., 1969, 416 F. 2d 1012, cert. denied, 397 U.S. 951, 90 S.Ct. 976, 25 L.Ed.2d 134. But see Brown v. Georgia Power Co., S.D.Ga., 1973, 371 F.Supp. 543, afFd, 5 Cir., 1974, 491 F. 2d 117, c…