OPINION
By the Court, SAITTA, J.
This appeal raises the issue of whether claim preclusion applies to prevent a party from bringing a second lawsuit when the first lawsuit was dismissed under a local court rule for failure to attend a pretrial calendar call. In resolving this issue, we clarify the tests for determining when claim preclusion or issue preclusion applies. We then conclude that claim preclusion applies in the present case and therefore...
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