Legal Opinion
Mohamed v. Exxon Corp.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided June 7, 1990No. C14-89-00886-CVPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
J. CURTISS BROWN, Chief Justice.
In this civil rights case the trial court ruled that res judicata barred the plaintiffs from litigating state law claims, after a federal court had dismissed an earlier suit grounded on federal law. We must determine the prior judgment’s preclusive effect under federal law. The complexity of the inquiry makes us wish there were a state-to-federal counterpart to Tex.R.App.P. 114, which provides for certification of state láw questions from federal appellate courts to the Texas supreme court; such a reverse Erie rule would let us ask the Fifth Circuit…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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3Cited by24 opinions
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- Autry v. Dearman, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)1996
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