Ninth Circuit on Res Judicata

"This case presents the question of whether res judicata bars the Secretary of Homeland Security (the Secretary) from initiating a second deportation case on the basis of a charge that he could have brought in the first case, when, due to a change of law that occurred during the course of the first case, he lost the first case. We hold that the Secretary is barred." Bravo-Pedroza v. Gonzales, Feb. 6, 2007.