North Star Mut. Ins. Co. v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the legal interests of a corporation and its officers are similarly affected by the outcome of a legal proceeding
• analyzing that question and citing various opinions that discuss whether attorneys are in privity with their clients for purposes of issue and claim preclusion
• \Something more than the common objective of attorney and client in obtaining an outcome favorable to the client is necessary to establish privity.\
• “before res judicata can be applied, the district court is required to analyze whether its application would work an injustice on the party against whom it is urged[.]”
• “‘Privies’ to a judgment are those who are so connected with the parties in estate or in blood or in law as to be identified with them in interest, and consequently to be affected with them by the litigation.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).