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RICHARDS v. JEFFERSON COUNTY

No. 95-386.

517 U.S. 793 (1996)

RICHARDS et al. v. JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA, et al.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided June 10, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Baxley argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Joel E. Dillard.

William M. Slaughter argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Richard H. Walston.*

Stevens, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

Justice Stevens, delivered the opinion of the Court.

In Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U.S. 32, 37 (1940), we held that it would violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to bind litigants to a judgment rendered in an earlier litigation to which they were not parties and in which they were not adequately represented. The decision of the Supreme Court of Alabama that we review today presents us with the same basic...

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