Successor, Subsidiary Can Retry Issues Resolved in Suits Against Original Company

摘要

The entry of four judgments against a company for groundwater contamination don't bar its successor or a new subsidiary from relitigating some of the same issues in a new case, a federal district court ruled Jan. 20 (Kirk v. Schaeffler Group USA, Inc., 2015 BL 12792, W.D. Mo., No. 13-CV-5032, 1/20/15). The successor company and subsidiary weren't involved in the earlier litigation, so they aren't barred from litigating some issues resolved in the other cases, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri held.