Salt Lake City v. Mark C. Haik

On Direct Appeal

Justice Himonas,

opinion of the Court:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1 In 1997, Mark Haik litigated a lawsuit in federal court based on strikingly similar facts to the one that he now seeks to pursue in the third distinct, and he lost on the merits. See Haik v. Town of Alta, No. 974202, 1999 WL 190717, at *1 (10th Cir. Apr. 5, 1999). In 2012, Mr. Haik litigated a lawsuit in federal court based on exactly the same facts as the one before us, and he lost again. See Haik v. Salt Lake City Corp., 567 F.Appx. 621, 623 (10th Cir.2014). To be sure, Mr. Haik did not raise each and every legal claim in…