CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-RES JUDICATA IN FEDERAL COURTS

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Abstract

In American Surety Company v. Baldwin the Surety Company had chosen the state courts of Idaho as its forum for determining the issue of liability upon the supersedeas bond and had pursued its remedy to the Supreme Court. Then it sought to re-open the issue and inject a federal question by bringing an action to enjoin the enforcement of the judgment in the federal courts in Idaho. It was held that the doctrine of res judicata prevented a resort to an independent hearing in the federal courts in that State. American Surety Company v. Baldwin, (U.S. 1932) 53 Sup. Ct. 98 (1932).

Recommended Citation

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-RES JUDICATA IN FEDERAL COURTS, 31 Mich. L. Rev. 429 (1933).
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