Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit January 17, 1985, No. 83-3740 (Employees Own Federal Credit Union v. City of Defiance)

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

I.

In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, the District Court held that since the identical *244claim raised in this suit was decided adversely to the plaintiff on the merits in a prior Ohio state court decision, the claim could not be relitigated in federal court under the doctrine of res judicata.