International Nutrition Company v. Horphag Research, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the term privity “is simply a short- hand way of saying that [a] nonparty [i.e., a party not named in a prior action] will be bound by the judgment in that action”
• defining the third element as involving “the same claims that were raised, or could have been raised, in the prior action”
• defining the third element as involving “the same claims that were raised, or could have been raised, in the prior action.”
• “default judgments can give rise to res judicata … INC therefore cannot avoid the bar of res judicata on the ground that [its predecessor-in-interest’s previous] opposition was abandoned and dismissed for failure to prosecute”
• trademark company could not limit rights of transferee that were unrelated to the transferred property; res judicata did not apply to non-parties to a default judgment because the parties were not privies to the action
• “Contrary to INC’s argument, default judgments can give rise to res judicata.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).