CopyPublished | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | 16 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 250, 2003 Bankr. LEXIS 1031, 2003 WL 22068724
...The Full Faith and Credit Doctrine requires a court to accord the same preclusive effect to a judgment as would the rendering court. 18 James Wm. Moore, Et Al., Moore's Federal Practice §
130.02 (3d ed.1997). A judgment must be final, valid, and on the merits in order to be entitled to full faith and credit. Id. at §
130.04[1]. A judgment which is conclusive of the proceeding before the court is a final judgment. Id. at §
130.04[2]. The Order of Dismissal is a final order. "A valid judgment is one that is not void based on a constitutional infirmity, lack of jurisdiction or power of the rendering court, fraud or some other fundamental reason." Id. at
130.04[3]....
...a judgment is on the merits if it is rendered upon consideration of the legal claim as distinguished from consideration of an objection to subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, service of process, venue or any other ground that does not go to the legal or factual sufficiency of the claim to relief." Id. at § 130.04[4]....
