Two Bites on a Red AppleThe U.S. Postal Service advertises that “shipping isn’t complicated.”  Taking a page from the Postal Service’s book, the Supreme Court of Louisiana on Tuesday said much the same thing about res judicata.  In a concise unanimous decision, the court reversed an award of punitive damages against Exxon on res judicata grounds.  The court held that a defendant may not be required to relitigate whether its conduct warrants punitive damages after a jury found in its favor on that very question in an earlier case involving the same plaintiff.
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