Claim Preclusion.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Peter Daza v. State of Indiana, et al.,

Case No.: 20-1209

Officials: KANNE, WOOD, and SCUDDER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Claim Preclusion

Peter Daza once worked for the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), but he was fired in 2015. Believing that the agency took that step for discriminatory and retaliatory reasons, he sued it in 2017. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants, however, and we affirmed its decision. See Daza v. Indiana, 941 F.3d 303 (7th Cir. 2019) (Daza I). That should have been the end of things, but it was not. Days after the district court dismissed his first action, he filed the present case, which is identical except...