Pamela Richmond v. St. Joseph Care Center West

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the narrow issue of whether we must afford preclusive effect to the decision of an Indiana circuit court. The genesis of the litigation was the discharge of Pamela Richmond by St. Joseph Care Center (“St.Joseph’s”). The facts underlying that discharge are of no relevance to this appeal, which turns solely on the interpretation of the Indiana decision, so we will not recite them. After her discharge, Richmond filed a claim of race discrimination with the South Bend Human Rights Commission (the “Commission”) and the Equal Employment…