The Louisiana Supreme Court has rejected a class action brought by 7,600 public school employees who lost their jobs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina because three separate cases were already brought by a teachers union over the employees’ termination.
The court, 5-2, held that the class action brought by Orleans Parish School Board employees is precluded by the doctrine of res judicata, which blocks the relitigation of all causes of action arising out of the “same transaction and occurrence that were the subject matter of a prior litigation between the same parties.”
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