Res judicata, or claim preclusion, precludes a party from litigating a claim where a judgment on the merits exists from a prior action between the same parties, involving the same subject matter; the doctrine applies even if the later claim is based on a different theory or seeks a different remedy, so long as it arises out of the same transaction (see Matter of Josey v Goord,
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