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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS


KRISTY L. SWANSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, V LIVINGSTON COUNTY and LIVINGSTON COUNTY SHERIFF, Defendants-Appellants.

UNPUBLISHED March 24, 2005

No. 251483 Livingston Circuit Court LC No. 02-019239-CZ

Before: Hoekstra, P.J., and Neff and Schuette, JJ. PER CURIAM. Defendants appeal by leave granted the trial court's denial of their motion for summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(7). Plaintiff originally filed a sexual discrimination suit in federal court; that lawsuit was dismissed on defendants' motion for summary judgment. In the meantime, plaintiff filed this lawsuit in state court alleging the same theories of sexual discrimination and the same facts as alleged in the federal suit. Defendants' unsuccessful motion for summary disposition relied on the doctrines of collateral estoppel and res judicata. We reverse. Plaintiff filed a sexual discrimination and retaliation lawsuit in federal court under Title VII, 42 USC

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