Miller v. Charles

How courts have described this case

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• biological father of child nevertheless “stranger” to earlier paternity litigation where not a party
• privity in subrogation of right to child support to DHR does not include child
• court will not apply preclusive effect where doing so would cause injustice
• “Biological evidence points overwhelmingly toward Miller as the father of the child, and . . . giving the [prior] adjudication against Glaze preclusive effect would perpetuate not simply an inconsistency, but more probably a falsehood and an injustice.”
• issue must be “actually adjudicated” in prior proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).