Subsequent Injury Fund v. Ehrman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the Subsequent Injury Fund had the implied authority to raise issues of accidental injury and causal connection
• refusing to bar a second litigation attempt on the same subject matter partially because one of the parties had not participated in the first forum and could not have appealed therefrom
• classifying two parties as “not sufficiently identical in interest to regard [the first party] as representing all of the legal rights and defenses the [second party] may have against the claimant”
• “For either [doctrine] to apply, the second action must be between the same parties or those in privity with them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).