United Federation of Postal Clerks, Afl-Cio v. W. Marvin Watson, Postmaster General of the United States

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• giving credence to “the limited purpose of the rule to protect defendants against a subsequent suit on a cause of action previously adjudicated with another plaintiff”
• The Rule “is intended to protect defendants from multiple liability in actions by subsequent claimants and also to ensure that the judgment in the action will have res judicata effect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).