Microvote General Corp. v. Indiana Election Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] party is not allowed to split a cause of action, pur- suing it in a piecemeal fashion and subjecting a defendant to needless multiple suits.”
• “[A] party is not allowed to split a cause of action, pur- suing it in a piecemeal fashion and subjecting a defendant to needless multiple suits.”
• “The term [privy] includes those who control an action, though not a party to it, and those whose interests are represented by a party to the action.”
• “[I]n determining the parties for res judicata purposes, . . . court[s] look[] beyond the nominal parties and treat[] those whose interest[s] are involved as the real parties.”
• “The doctrine of res judicata bars the litigation of a claim after a final judgment has been rendered in a prior action involving the same claim between the same parties or their privies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).