State Water Control Board v. Smithfield Foods, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the inquiry underlying privity is whether a party’s interest “is so identical with another that representation by one party is representation of the other’s legal right”
• explaining that a “joint endeavor” between the EPA and a state environmental agency rendered the state agency able to advance the exact same legal right under statute as the EPA, therefore making the parties privies of each other
• final judgment on the merits of a claim in federal court precludes the parties from further litigation on that claim in state court
• final judgment on the merits of a claim in federal court precludes the parties from further litiga- tion on that claim in state court
• final judgment on the merits of a claim in federal court precludes the parties from further litiga- tion on that claim in state court
• \The touchstone of privity for purposes of res judicata is that a party's interest is so identical with another that representation by one party is representation of the other's legal right.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).