DKN Holdings LLC v. Faerber

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• concluding that 3 claim preclusion “bar[s] claims that were, or should have been, advanced in a previous suit 4 involving the same parties”
• recognizing that “[o]nly the party against whom the doctrine is invoked must be bound by- the prior proceeding. ...”
• noting that res judicata cannot be applied until there has been a final judgment on the merits in the first suit
• explaining that under California law, res judicata bars a subsequent action that “involves: (1) the same cause of action (2) between the same parties (3
• holding under California law that “[d]erivative liability supporting preclusion has been found between a corporation and its employees . . . and among alleged coconspirators”
• noting that res judicata applies only if the second suit “involves . . . the same cause of action”

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