K-Land Corp. No. 28 v. Landis Sewerage Authority

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• recognizing that equitable considerations can relax New Jersey’s mandatory-joinder requirements when joinder would be “unfair”
• discussing the \eliminat[ion of] mandatory party joinder under the entire controversy doctrine\
• “The entire controversy doctrine does not compel a plaintiff to file ‘premature or unaccrued claims.’”
• claim in later litigation should be no more difficult to defend against than it would have been if asserted in the earlier suit
• “The entire controversy doctrine [is] an equitable pre-clusionary doctrine whose purposes are to encourage comprehensive and conclusive litigation determinations, to avoid fragmentation of litigation, and to promote party fairness and judicial economy and efficiency .... ”
• “[T]he polestar for the application of the [ECD] is judicial fairness.” (internal citations omitted)

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