Sedley v. City of West Buechel

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a person who was not party to a prior action may assert res judicata “against a party to that action”
• “[A] judgment in a former action operates as an estoppel ... as to matters which were necessarily involved and determined in the former action
• “The ‘preclusion’ doctrine seems reasonable to us -15- and we shall adopt it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).