General Foods Corporation and Rich-Seapak Corporation v. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health

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• finding relationship between trade association and member sufficient to bind member to judgment against association, in absence of evidence that member objected to or was not adequately represented in litigation giving rise to judgment
• binding member to state court judgment in suit brought by association and holding that “a member of a trade association who finances an action which it brings on behalf of its members impliedly authorizes the trade association to represent him in that action”
• law of state where judgment is rendered determines persons bound by prior judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).