Harborside Refrigerated Services, Inc. v. Howard Vogel Edward Benenson

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the application of claim preclusion to actions for declaratory relief would “subvert the very interests in judicial economy that the doctrine was designed to serve”
• “[Bjoth federal and New York State law recognize the declaratory judgment exception articulated in the Restatement.”
• “Many jurisdictions recognize an exception to ordinary res judicata principles where, as here, the prior action involved only a request for declaratory relief.”
• preclusive effect of the declaratory judgment is limited to the subject matter of the relief sought
• “Under this exception, the preclusive effect of the declaratory judgment is limited to the subject matter of the declaratory relief sought.”
• “[B]oth federal and New York State law recognize the declaratory judgment exception articulated in the Restatement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).