Legal Opinion
James Piatt v. Ellis MacDougall
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 8, 1985No. 82-5328PublishedCited by 177 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.
James Piatt, a prisoner at Florence, Arizona, appeals from a judgment dismissing, on the grounds of res judicata, his claims for wages for work performed at an Arizona prison. The district court gave a prior state court judgment preclusive effect even though some of Piatt’s federal claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 were not addressed by the state court and even though Piatt was allegedly unable to appeal the state court decision because he could not afford a $20 filing fee. A divided panel of this court affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded for further…
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