Usually means: Final judgment barring further litigation.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (res judicata)

noun:  (law) A legal claim that has already been decided in another lawsuit or proceeding, and therefore must be dismissed.
noun:  (law) The legal doctrine that claims that a case already decided in a proceeding may not be brought in any later proceeding.

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