Fernandez v. Memorial Healthcare System, Inc.

OPINION

MIRABAL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted in favor of defendants in the trial court, Memorial Healthcare System, Inc., Memorial Hospital System, Inc., Gary Leach, M.D., Arthur D. Hamberger, M.D., and Dan S. Wilford (collectively, Memorial Healthcare). The sole issue this Court must decide is whether the plaintiffs’ state court action is barred, under the doctrine of res judicata, by a summary judgment granted in favor of Memorial Healthcare in federal court.

In 1990, Memorial Healthcare entered into a contract with certain physicians granting them the exclusive…