Brown v. Kansas City Live, LLC, No. 18-2527 (8th Cir. 2019)
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Plaintiff filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1981 against K.C. Live for assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence, and malicious prosecution. The district court granted K.C. Live's motion to dismiss after finding the claim was barred by res judicata in light of the state court's prior dismissal with prejudice.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed, holding that the suit was barred by res judicata because plaintiff asserted the same cause of action against the same party in federal court that he did in the state court, which had jurisdiction and entered a final judgment.
Court Description: Grasz, Author, with Shepherd and Melloy, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil procedure. The district court did not err in finding plaintiff's civil rights action was barred by res judicata in light of the state court's prior dismissal with prejudice; plaintiff has asserted the same cause of action against the same party in federal court that he did in state court, which had jurisdiction and entered a final judgment.
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