New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.

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• stating that if party “failed to serve [defendant] in the earlier action, 17 the default judgment is void and has no res judicata effect in this action.”
• stating that if party “failed to serve [defendant] in the earlier action, 17 the default judgment is void and has no res judicata effect in this action.”
• “[A] privately-retained attorney does not act under 17 color of state law for purposes of actions brought under the Civil Rights Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).