Othar Russell v. Sunamerica Securities, Inc.

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• concluding that the relationship between two defendants was \close enough\ to apply nonmutual claim preclusion
• concluding that the relationship between two defendants was \close enough\ to apply nonmutual claim preclusion
• concluding that the relationship between two defendants was \close enough\ to apply nonmutual claim preclusion
• observing that “most other federal circuits have concluded that employer-employee or principal-agent relations may constitute grounds for application of res judicata.”
• finding res judicata and identical parties in suit against entity for whom liability was derivative of entity which had settled in the first case
• finding privity and applying res judicata where the gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint was that defendant company was liable as the successor in interest to company sued in previous suit

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