What is the effect of res judicata on a plaintiff's right to bring a second claim?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Pine Valley, Inc. v. Ajinomoto N. Am., Inc., B279541 (Cal. App. 2018):
Res judicata serves as a bar to all causes of action that were litigated or that could have been litigated in the first action. (Nevada v. United States (1983) 463 U.S. 110, 130; Sutphin v. Speik (1940) 15 Cal.2d 195, 202.) The reason for the rule that all claims that could have been brought are barred under res
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