Graham Nat. Bank v. Beavers

How courts have described this case

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• finding that two parties had substantial identity of interests “because both parties had an interest in a judgment that” reached same conclusion
• recognizing that mutuality is not required for defensive issue preclusion
• noting that privity can arise from “principal-agent . . . relationships”
• finding alignment of interests between different defendants where “both parties had an interest in a judgment that [their conduct] did not injury [plaintiff] or result in damages that would support his claims against [them], respectively”
• “In this case, Foster’s claims against both Wife and Plock turned on the same evidence—the content and disclosure of the same PREs—and involved the same timeline. Therefore, we conclude that there was identity of subject matter between this case and the prior action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).