SADOWSKI, JASON P. v. FORBES HOMES, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• holding collateral estoppel applies when present issues were “necessary to [a] final judgment on the merits” and same party had “a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue” in prior litigation of separate cause of action
• providing “this Court has held that privity between the parties to past and present suits . . . can exist when the parties to such suits bear an agency relationship”
• finding, for purposes of res judicata, that supervisory corrections officers were in privity with their subordinates where “as administrators,” they “were accused of failing to remedy the wrongdoing of their subordinates”
• “When res judicata applies, ‘[a]ny final, valid judgment on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction precludes any future suit between the parties or their privies on the same cause of action.’”
• “Overall, privity between parties lies when there exists mutual or successive relationships to the same right of property, or such an identification of interest of one person with another as to represent the same legal right.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).