Citizens for Open Access to Sand and Tide, Inc. v. Seadrift Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the purpose of the state agency's settlement agreement was to resolve the dispute between the parties regarding the public's interest in the disputed land, thus res judicata barred the claims brought on behalf of the public
• finding that the purpose of the state agency’s settlement agreement was to resolve the dispute between the parties regarding the public’s interest in the disputed land, thus res judicata barred the claims brought on behalf of the public
• “If the interests of the parties in question are likely to have been divergent, one does not infer adequate representation and there is no privity.”
• “A judgment entered by consent or stipulation is as conclusive a bar as a judgment rendered after trial.”
• so holding despite the two actions were premised on wholly different legal theories

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).