Legal Opinion
Pilié v. Graham
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided September 12, 1989No. 88-C-0707Published
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS, Justice.
We are called upon to determine the res judicata or claim preclusion effect of a federal diversity court judgment upon an action brought in the court of a state other than the one in which the diversity court sat. A law firm sued its former client for additional legal fees pursuant to a contingent fee contract and for breach of contract damages after having been awarded a substantial percentage of the client’s personal injury recovery by a federal diversity court in another state. The trial court sustained the former client’s exception of res judicata and dismissed the law…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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- Stoll v. GottliebSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- O'Brien v. City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
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