George v. City of Morro Bay (In Re George)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KLEIN, Bankruptcy Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment based on the res judicata doctrine of claim preclusion, which the court invoked to refuse to consider a new theory regarding a transaction that the parties previously had litigated to finality. Concluding that the General Rule of Bar and the General Rule Concerning Splitting, as stated in Restatement (Second) of Judgments §§ 19 and 24, combine to warrant imposition of claim preclusion, we AFFIRM.
FACTS
Appellants, James and Margie George, who in 1987 had leased nonresidential real property for thirty years from appellee, the City…
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