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Andela v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, USA
Citation: 624 F. App'x 1Docket: No. 15-5178
Court: Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; November 11, 2015; Federal Appellate Court
The appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is affirmed, specifically regarding the orders dated April 28, 2015, and June 4, 2015. The district court properly dismissed the appellant's complaint based on the doctrine of res judicata, which prevents relitigation of issues that were or could have been raised in a prior action, as established in Allen v. McCurry. The principle of claim preclusion applies here, indicating that matters that should have been raised in an earlier suit are barred from being litigated again. The appellant does not contest that the current case and a previous case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania involve the same nucleus of facts, a determining factor for whether two cases share the same cause of action. Any claims of fraud regarding the prior decision are deemed unsupported and conclusory by the court. The disposition of this appeal will not be published, and the mandate will be withheld for seven days to allow for any timely petitions for rehearing or rehearing en banc.