Gregory v. Chehi

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · Decided 1988-03-24

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OPINION OF THE COURT WEIS, Circuit Judge. The doctrine of res judicata has never been as pithily or colorfully expressed as it was during the Civil War by a highly unlikely source. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the semi-literate cavalry genius of the Confederacy, after twice refusing a soldier’s request for a furlough, scribbled on the back of the form, “I told you twicest Godamnit know.” 1</fo…

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