( August 18, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in vacating a New York federal judge’s dismissal order that res judicata does not bar a Title 42 U.S. Code Section 1983 due process claim filed by the former president and CEO of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp. (RIOC) against the organization and several state officials following her public termination for allegedly using racially and sexually offensive language....