Burns v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board

Fifth Circuit

Burns v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board

530 F.2d 1201, 11 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 10,879

CourtCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

DecidedApril 29, 1976

DocketNo. 75-3849

StatusPublished

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Burns v. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, 530 F.2d 1201, 11 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 10,879 (5th Cir. 1976).

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PER CURIAM:

In this 1975 nontenured Black teacher’s suit claiming racial discrimination in his discharge, the District Court held that it was barred by res judicata by reason of his 1973 suit in the same Court. Whether the 1975 suit should be characterized as the “same cause of action” as the rubric goes, see Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Sunnen, 1948, 333 U.S. 591, 597, 68 S.Ct. 715, 719, 92 L.Ed. 898, 905; Cromwell v. County of Sac, 1877, 94 U.S. 351, 352, 24 L.Ed. 195, 197; Dore v. Kleppe, 5 Cir., 1975, 522 F.2d 1369, 1374; Stevenson v. International Paper Co., 5 Cir., 1975, 516 F.2d 103, 109-10, it is plain from the examination of both 1973 and 1975 complaints and the District Court’s minute entry memoranda that at the heart of each was the basic decisive charge of racial discrimination. See Acree v. Air Line Pilots Association, 5 Cir., 1968, 390 F.2d 199, 201, cert. denied, 393 U.S. 852, 89 S.Ct. 88, 21 L.Ed.2d 122. It is equally plain that the Judge, in dismissing the 1973 suit on its merits, categorically rejected this claim. So if it is not barred by res judicata it surely is by collateral estoppel.

AFFIRMED.

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PER CURIAM:

In this 1975 nontenured Black teacher’s suit claiming racial discrimination in his discharge, the District Court held that it was barred by res judicata by reason of his 1973 suit in the same Court. Whether the 1975 suit should be characterized as the “same cause of action” as the rubric goes, see Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Sunnen, 1948, 333 U.S. 591, 597, 68 S.Ct. 715, 719, 92 L.Ed. 898, 905; Cromwell v. County of Sac, 1877, 94 U.S. 351, 352, 24 L.Ed. 195, 197; Dore v. Kleppe, 5 Cir., 1975, 522 F.2d 1369, 1374; Stevenson v. International Paper Co., 5 Cir., 1975, 516 F.2d 103, 109-10, it is plain from the examination of both 1973 and 1975 complaints and the District Court’s minute entry memoranda that at the heart of each was the basic decisive charge of racial discrimination. See Acree v. Air Line Pilots Association, 5 Cir., 1968, 390 F.2d 199, 201, cert. denied, 393 U.S. 852, 89 S.Ct. 88, 21 L.Ed.2d 122. It is equally plain that the Judge, in dismissing the 1973 suit on its merits, categorically rejected this claim. So if it is not barred by res judicata it surely is by collateral estoppel.

AFFIRMED.

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