PIATT v. MacDOUGALL

No. 82-5328.

773 F.2d 1032 (1985)

James PIATT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ellis MacDOUGALL, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Van Nest, Keker & Brockett, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jay R. Adkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Phoenix, Ariz., for defendant-appellee.

Before BROWNING, Chief Judge, GOODWIN, HUG, TANG, SKOPIL, SCHROEDER, FARRIS, ALARCON, FERGUSON, CANBY and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.


Argued En Banc and Submitted July 11, 1984.

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.

James Piatt, a prisoner at Florence, Arizona, appeals from a judgment dismissing, on the grounds of res judicata, his claims for wages for work performed at an Arizona prison. The district court gave a prior state court judgment preclusive effect even though some of Piatt's federal claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 were not addressed by the state court and even though Piatt was allegedly...

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