Painter v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““transaction” is a word of flexible meaning. It may comprehend a series of many occurrences, depending not so much upon the immediateness of their connection as upon their logical relationship. Accordingly, all logically related events entitling a person to institute a legal action against another generally are regarded as comprising a transaction or occurrence. Several courts have concluded that allegations of a Apattem or practices of discrimination may describe such logically related events and satisfy the same transaction requirement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doe v. Carilion Medical Center

2. “All of the witnesses, except the newspaper editor and witnesses testifying to damages, limited their testimony to a single factual issue--what transpired during Mrs. Painter's arrest on November 9, 1984? It is hard to imagine a case in which the evidence bearing on the two claims is so closely identical.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Painter v. Harvey

3. “The central issue in both the claim and counterclaim is identical: What transpired during Mrs. Painter's arrest on November 9, 1984? The jury, in essence, was faced with irreconcilably conflicting evidence and was required to choose which version to accept or reject.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Painter v. Harvey