Sheahy v. Primus Automotive Financial Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that privity existed in a class action when lead plaintiff was the defendant in the prior adjudication
• holding that a law firm sued for representing a creditor in a debt collection action was in privity with client-creditor
• holding that when “the basis of the earlier suit was that [the plaintiff] had had defaulted on a promissory note”, and the claim in the instant action is “whether that promissory note was valid”, the transaction test is met
• “[Although the earlier suit filed by Primus against Sheahy in the Maryland District Court resulted in a default judgment, for res judicata purposes a default judgment is given the same [preclusive] effect as a judgment entered after a trial on the merits.”

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