The Current Status of the Preclusive Effects of Judgments in the Federal Court System of the United States of America

Avtorji

Thomas Allan Heller
Univerza v Mariboru, Pravna fakulteta

Kratka vsebina

Res judicata law in the United States of America has a long, extensive and complex history. The aim of this paper is to provide at least a working summary of some of the most important aspects of the current res judicata law in the federal court system of the United States. The flexible discovery, pleading and joinder rules have given rise to more expansive res judicata law. The paper will discuss what exactly constitutes a judgment; how the federal courts deal with finality of judgments in multiple party and multiple claim cases; the final judgment rule; the form of judgments; the methods to enter judgments and significance of entry of judgments; together with a detailed overview of the doctrine of res judicata itself, including the separate, but related twin doctrines of claim preclusion and issue preclusion.

Biografija avtorja

Thomas Allan Heller, Univerza v Mariboru, Pravna fakulteta

Thomas Allan Heller je ameriški pravni strokovnjak, ki je pridobil pravniško izobrazbo na University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Michigan, 1976) in J.D. Wayne Law School, Detroit (Michigan, 1979). Leta 1981 je uspešno opravil Michigan State Bar Exam, leta 1984 pa še Washington State Bar Exam. Zaposlen je bil na sodišču in odvetništvu. Leta 2017 je z družino prišel v Maribor, kjer so nastale uspešne vezi s PF UM. Thomas Allan Heller je pri sodelovanju s PF UM pomembno prispeval k širjenju znanja o ameriškem pravnem sistemu v Sloveniji. Njegovo sodelovanje s PF UM je še posebej obogatilo pedagoški proces. Thomas Allan Heller je tudi spodbudnik, sedaj že uspešnega sodelovanja med Wayne State University in PF UM. Njegov znanstveni opus obsega znanstvene članke, objavljene v priznanih slovenskih revijah, kot so Lexonomica, Medicine, Law & Society in Pravnik.

Maribor, Slovenija. E-pošta: heller6651@msn.com

Prenosi

PDF

Izdaja

Collected Papers of Thomas A. Heller

Strani

71-116

Izdano

14.07.2025

Kategorije

Avtorske pravice (c) 2025 Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba

Licenca

Creative Commons licenca

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Kako citirati

Heller, T. A. (2025). The Current Status of the Preclusive Effects of Judgments in the Federal Court System of the United States of America. In S. Kraljić (Ed.), Collected Papers of Thomas A. Heller (pp. 71-116). Univerzitetna založba Univerze v Mariboru. https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/977/chapter/735