Court Opinion

ID: 9480419
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:47:21.033356+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:40.488638
License: Public Domain

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
While I am in full agreement with the majority opinion, I write separately to state why this case is to be distinguished from one in which a party such as ATTIS appears in one action in an individual capacity and in a subsequent action in a representative capacity. Res judicata does not apply in such a case. See, e.g., Hurt v. Pullman, Inc., 764 F.2d 1443, 1447-50 (11th Cir.1985); 18 C. Wright, A. Miller & E. Cooper, Federal Practice and Procedure § 4454 (1981). Here, however, Slaughter is arguing that merely by adding the Plan as a party, res judicata does not attach. Because the Plan is a nominal defendant lacking a separate and distinct existence apart from ATTIS, I agree that res judicata bars the suit.