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The prevailing party would likely cite the doctrine of res judicata, which says that a claim that reaches judgment in one court should not be relitigated in a second.

The important doctrine of res judicata does the same in civil trials, preventing the same dispute from getting refought over and over again by losing parties seeking out new courts.

Whirlpool’s decertification motions perversely provide plaintiffs’ lawyers with arguments to resist res judicata.

On the whole, it appears that the principle of res judicata is slowly winning out against the principle of domicile.

In so doing he placed this issue in its proper context of res judicata.