Picardi v. Chicago Truck Drivers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Secretary of Labor’s prior ERISA suit did not preclude the private plaintiff’s subsequent ERISA suit; the parties lacked privity because the Secretary represented the public interest, distinct from the private litigant’s private interest
• “Privity for res judicata purposes expresses the idea that a person is so identified in interest with the party in the previous litigation that precisely the same legal right in respect to the subject matter is involved”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).