The following excerpt is from Bates v. Jones, 131 F.3d 843 (9th Cir. 1997):
3 See also Ferris v. Cuevas, 118 F.3d 122 (2nd Cir.1997) (recognizing the significance of representation by same attorney to application of res judicata principles in cases arising out of the City's refusal to certify initiative petitions where parties were similar but not identical and constitutional issues that could have been raised, but weren't, in state court were asserted in federal court action).
4 Other legislators who are parties to this action became so at the invitation of the panel.
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