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Richards Vs. Jefferson County

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 10, 1996

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  2. Scott Vs. Mcneal US Supreme Court · May 14, 1894
  3. MartIn Vs. Wilks US Supreme Court · Jun 12, 1989
  4. Phillips Petroleum Co. Vs. Shutts US Supreme Court · Jun 26, 1985
  5. Hansberry Vs. Lee US Supreme Court · Nov 12, 1940
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  6. Postal Telegraph Cable Co. Vs. Newport US Supreme Court · Jun 10, 1918
  7. Heiser Vs. Woodruff US Supreme Court · Apr 22, 1946
  8. Windsor Vs. Mcveigh US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1876
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  10. Richards v. Jefferson
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  11. County - 517 U.S. 793 (1996) October Term, 1995 Syllabus Richards Et Al. V. Jefferson
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  12. s acting finance director and the city itself, consolidated with a suit by three county taxpayers, see Bedingfield v. Jefferson
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  13. of state-law res judicata principles may be inconsistent with the Federal Constitution, see Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Newport
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  14. and that the litigation was so conducted as to ensure the full and fair consideration of the common issue. Hansberry v. Lee
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  15. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. In Hansberry v. Lee
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  16. by three county taxpayers, and the Supreme Court of Alabama upheld the tax in the resulting appeal. See Bedingfield v. Jefferson
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  17. county argued that the federal claims as well as the state claims were barred by the adjudication in 1 Richards v. Jefferson
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  18. Ibid. (quoting Heiser v. Woodruff
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  19. against the relitigation of common issues or the piecemeal resolution of disputes. Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Newport
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  20. to the Alabama Supreme Court, that federal issue has been preserved for our review. See PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins
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  21. to litigate the same matter in a former action in a court of competent jurisdiction. Southern Pacific R. R. Co. v. United
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  22. The opportunity to be heard is an essential requisite of due process of law in judicial proceedings. Windsor v. McVeigh
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  23. Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. v. Schmidt
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  24. enforce a judgment against a party named in the proceedings without a hearing or an opportunity to be heard (Pennoyer v. Neff
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  25. Coe v. Armour
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  26. in which he is not designated as a party or to which he has not been made a party by service of process.' Hansberry v. Lee
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  27. Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University
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  28. not a party, has his interests adequately represented by someone with the same interests who is a party. See Hansberry v. Lee
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  29. Montana v. United
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  30. legal proceedings may terminate pre-existing rights if the scheme is otherwise consistent with due process. See NLRB v. Bildisco
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  31. Tulsa Professional Collection Services, Inc. v. Pope
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  32. which would conclusively resolve their legal rights. That failure is troubling because, as we explained in Mullane v. Central
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  33. Schroeder v. City
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  34. concluded, were adequately represented in Bedingfield. 5 Our answer is informed by our decision in Hansberry v. Lee
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  35. in which the parties had stipulated that the owners of 95 percent had signed. Id., at 38 (referring to Burke v. Kleiman
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  36. the stipulation was untrue, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the second action was barred by res judicata. See Lee v. Hansberry
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  37. Chase Nat. Bank v. Norwalk
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  38. Eisen v. Carlisle
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  39. Mullane v. Central
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  40. cf. Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts
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  41. to one another, Martin v. Wilks
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  42. provided representation sufficient to make up for the fact that petitioners neither participated in, see Montana v. United
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  43. all persons over whom they have jurisdiction when, as here, the underlying right is personal in nature. Cf. Lockport v. Citizens
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  44. that status to entitle him to complain about an alleged misuse of public funds, see, e. g., Massachusetts v. Mellon
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  45. or about other public action that has only an indirect impact on his interests, e. g., Stromberg v. Board
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  46. of Ed. of Bratenahl, 64 Ohio St. 2d 98, 413 N. E. 2d 1184 (1980), Tallassee v. State
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  47. opportunity to contest a tax on federal constitutional grounds. See BrinkerhoffFaris Trust & Sav. Co. v. Hill
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  48. suit was of a kind that, under state law, could be brought only on behalf of the public at large. Cf. Corprew v. Tallapoosa
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  49. which we have held to be a protected property interest in its own right. See Logan v. Zimmerman
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  50. U. S., at 812 (relying on Mullane v. Central
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