Wursthaus, Inc. v. Cerreta

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that under long established precedent, foreign judgment \is entitled to full faith and credit in the absence of a showing that that court lacked jurisdiction or acted to deprive defendant of a reasonable opportunity to be heard\
• noting in action to enforce a Massachusetts money judgment that res judicata prevents a party from “defend[ing] upon the original merits” in the enforcement action
• affirming state trial court’s decision to construe a counterclaim as an affirmative defense under V.R.C.P. 8(c), which is nearly identical to Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(c)(2)
• res judicata bars those claims previously litigated or those claims which should have been raised before
• “A failure to plead a compulsory counterclaim will result in the barring of litigation of the claim in a subsequent proceeding.”
• \The burden of undermining the decree of a sister state rests heavily upon the one who assails such decree.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).