Mortgagelinq Corporation and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Commonwealth Land…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey held that the entire controversy doctrine applies extraterritorially, barring New Jersey actions against parties that could have been joined in a prior Pennsylvania federal suit, but reversed the lower court's dismissal with prejudice. The Court also concluded that a federal dismissal for failure to join parties is a threshold adjudication, not an adjudication on the merits, and therefore does not carry full preclusive effect.