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App. P. 142.03, which provides that, if the respondent does not file and serve a brief, “the case shall be determined on the merits.” 4 Appellate courts review de novo “[w]hether collateral estoppel precludes litigation of an issue.”

“Under res 8 judicata, a party is required to assert all alternative theories of recovery in the initial action.”

Whether collateral estoppel applies “is a mixed question of law and fact that we review de novo.”

wn as claim preclusion, prevents a party from asserting a claim after the conclusion of a prior action if “(1) the earlier claim involved the same set of factual circumstances; (2) the earlier claim involved the same parties or their privies; (3) there was a final judgment on the merits; (4) the estopped party had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the matter.”

840 (Minn. 2004) (setting forth the elements of res judicata and collateral estoppel, both of which require that the earlier claim involve the same parties or their privies).

The doctrine of res judicata turns on the principle that, once a case has reached a resolution, neither party , nor their privies, may relitigate “claims arising from the original circumstances.”

d 829, 837 (Minn. 2004) (“[N]either res judicata nor collateral estoppel is to be rigidly applied.”); Bode, d at 868 (analyzing a collateral attack according to “competing principles of finality and validity”); n.1 (Minn. 1994) (explaining that law of the case is a “discretionary

See Hauschildt v. Beckingham , (“Whether collateral estoppel precludes litigation of an issue is a mixed question of law and fact that we review de novo.”).

Res judicata has four elements: “(1) the earlier claim involved the same set of factual circumstances; (2) the earlier claim involved the same parties or their privies; (3) there was a final judgment on the merits; (4) the estopped party had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the matter.”

“Whether collateral estoppel precludes litigation of an issue is a mixed question of law and fact that [appellate courts] review de novo.” Hauschildt v. Beckingham

Created by Hill, rev. denied (Minn. July 15, 1993); d 829, 837-38 (Minn. 2004) (“The issue on which collateral estoppel is to be applied must be the same as that adjudicated in the prior action and it must have been necessary and essential to the resulting judgment in that action .

Courts should not rigidly apply collateral estoppel but should focus on w hether application of the doctrine “would work an injustice on the party against whom [collateral estoppel] is urged.” Hauschildt v. Beckingham

(“A judgment on the merits constitutes an absolute bar to a second suit for the same cause of action, and is conclusive between parties and privies, not only as to every matter which was actually litigated, but also as to every matter which might have been litigated therein.” (quotation omitted))

(noting that res judicata applies if “the earlier claim involved the same parties or their privies”).

Co., -27 (Minn. 2015) (stating that res judicata and collateral estoppel require consideration of whether the doctrine’s application would “work an injustice on the party against whom estoppel is urged” (quotation omitted)); (stating that “neither res judicata nor collateral estoppel is to be rigidly applied”).

“ Whether collateral estoppel precludes litigation of an issue is a mixed question of law and fact that we review de novo.”

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(laying out the four- factor test).

“Res judicata not only applies to all claims actually litigated, but to all claims that could have been litigated in the earlier action.”

“Whether collateral estoppel precludes litigation 14 of an issue is a mixed question of law and fact that we review de novo.”

Collateral estoppel is the doctrine that “a right, question or fact distinctly put in issue and directly determined by a court of compet ent jurisdiction cannot be disputed in a subsequent suit between the same parties or their privies.” (quotation omitted).

4 Res judicata applies to bar subsequent claims when “(1) the earlier claim involved the same set of factual circumstances; (2) the earlier claim involved the same parties or their privies; (3) there was a final judgment on the merits; [and] (4) the estopped party had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the matter .” d 829, 840 (Minn. 2004).

Res judicata bars subsequent litigation of a claim when: “(1) the earlier claim involved the same set of factual circumst ances; (2) the earlier claim involved the same parties or their privies; (3) there was a final judgment on the merits; [and](4) the estopped party had a full and fair opport unity to litigate the matter.” Hauschildt v. Beckingham

Once a dispute between parties ha s been adjudicated, “res judicata prevents either party from relitigating claims arising from the original circumstances, even under new legal theories.”

Fundamental to both doctrines is that a right, question or fact distinctly put in issue and directly determined by a court of competent jurisdiction cannot be disputed in a subsequent suit between the same parties or their privies.” Hauschildt v. Beckingham , (quotation omitted).

Res judicata is the principle that, “once there is an adjudication of a dispute between parties,” neither party may relitigate “claims arising from t he original circumstances, even under new legal theories.”

DECISION Res judicata is the principle that, once a case has reached a resolution, neither party may relitigate “ claims arising from the original circumstances .”

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t its claims are not barred by its prior adversary action against Robert Fields because the two actions do not satisfy the first requirement of the doctrine of res judicata , that the two legal proceedings concern “the same cause of action.” “[A] plaintiff may not split his cause of action and bring successive suits involving the same set of factual circumstances.” (quotation omitted).

“ Fundamental to [the] doctrine [of res judicata] is that a right, question or fact distinctly put [at] issue and directly determined by a court of competent jurisdiction cannot be disputed in a subsequent suit between the same parties.” (quotation omitted).