Bloomfield v. Weakland

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “claim preclusion will not operate to bar [the plaintiffs’] claims in the present action unless it is fundamentally fair to do so”
• setting forth elements of res judicata under Oregon law and explaining that res judicata forecloses prelitigation of “any ground or theory of relief that the party could have litigated in the first instance”
• “This court also has held that a person who was not a party to an earlier action but who was in ‘privity’ with a party to that earlier action can also be barred on claim preclusion grounds from bringing a second action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).