Ruthie Stewart v. General Mills Operations, No. 09-3526 (8th Cir. 2010)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: Civil case - Family and Medical Leave Act. Dismissal of action on res judicata ground is affirmed without comment.
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United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ___________ No. 09-3526 ___________ Ruthie Mae Stewart, Appellant, v. General Mills Operations, LLC, Appellee. * * * Appeal from the United States * District Court for the * Northern District of Iowa. * * [UNPUBLISHED] * * ___________ Submitted: May 3, 2010 Filed: May 21, 2010 ___________ Before LOKEN, BYE, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges. ___________ PER CURIAM. Ruthie Mae Stewart appeals the district court s1 dismissal of her action in which she alleged that General Mills violated the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. After careful de novo review, see Banks v. Int l Union Elec., Elec., Technical, Salaried & Mach. Workers, 390 F.3d 1049, 1052 (8th Cir. 2004), we conclude that dismissal of the suit on federal-law res judicata grounds was proper, see Taylor v. Sturgell, 128 S. Ct. 2161, 2171 (2008) (preclusive effect of federal-court judgment in federal-question case is determined by federal common law); Rutherford v. Kessel, 1 The Honorable Linda R. Reade, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. 560 F.3d 874, 877 (8th Cir. 2009) (res judicata precludes second suit if "its claims arise out of the same nucleus of operative facts as the prior claim"). Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. ______________________________ -2-
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