Legal Opinion
Headley v. Bacon
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1987No. 86-2512NEPublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSENN, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this appeal we examine the circumstances under which defendants in a civil action may be said to be in privity for res judicata purposes with the defendant in a previous action brought by the same plaintiff on the same set of facts. Because we conclude that the interests of the defendant police force officials in the present action were not adequately congruent to those of their employer, the defendant city in the previous action, we agree with the plaintiff that privity is lacking. Therefore, even though it may have been desirable to conserve judicial…
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