In an employment discrimination action, the dismissal of the complaint based on the res judicata effect of a prior state administrative proceeding is vacated where the state court’s dismissal was not a decision on the merits that would preclude the filing of a renewed state court action.
Read Hanrahan v. Riverside Nursing Home, No. 09-0585
Appellate Information
Argued: November 2, 2009
Decided: January 25, 2010
Judges
Opinion by Judge Lynch
Counsel
For Appellant:
Anthony C. Donofrio, Massapequa, NY
For Appellee:
Roger H. Briton and Ian B. Bogaty, Jackson Lewis LLP, Melville, NY
You Don’t Have To Solve This on Your Own – Get a Lawyer’s Help
Civil Rights
Block on Trump’s Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
Criminal
Judges Can Release Secret Grand Jury Records
Politicians Can’t Block Voters on Facebook, Court Rules
