The motion court properly reached the merits of the complaint since defendants failed to meet their burden of proving entitlement to dismissal based on the doctrine of res judicata. A stipulation discontinuing with prejudice a federal action which had been instituted by plaintiff's predecessor union president raising only a constitutional challenge to a predecessor directive did not bar plaintiff's instant state statutory claims (see Lamontagne v Board of Trustees of United...
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