Legal Opinion
Jane Doe v. Allied-Signal, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 9, 1993No. 91-3934PublishedCited by 330 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
This Court has not had to decide whether a federal court may remove to its own jurisdiction a suit first filed in state court in order to protect a previous federal judgment based entirely on an interpretation of state law. The district court in this case, assuming that it had jurisdiction, removed plaintiffs action to federal court. It then used res judicata principles to toss out the suit as an attempt to relitigate claims heard and rejected in a case we decided in 1991: Doe v. Allied-Signal, Inc., 925 F.2d 1007 (7th Cir.) (“Doe I”). We need not answer this ticklish…
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