Legal Opinion
Buck v. Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 17, 2010No. 09-1508PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff appeals from the district court’s dismissal of her lawsuit against her former law school as barred by res judicata and a lack of causation. She previously litigated earlier acts of discrimination against her law school in Michigan state courts, and had secured a preliminary injunction allowing her to attend classes. She was then dismissed from the law school on academic grounds. Because plaintiff should have supplemented her complaint in state court with claims that arose during the pendency of that suit, she is precluded by res judicata from raising…
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