Legal Opinion
Andersen v. Chrysler Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 1, 1996No. 95-3335PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
This putative class action is the third in a series of three lawsuits brought by six named plaintiffs against Chrysler Corporation (“Chrysler”). They challenge various benefits they received following the closing of the plants in which they worked. The district court believed this lawsuit was foreclosed on the ground of res judicata because of the previous two suits. It therefore granted summary judgment for the defendants. Although we cannot accept the district court’s holding that the plaintiffs’ prosecution of the previous two suits bars this action as res judicata,…
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