Restatement (Second) Of Judgments § 27

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• Jackson Jordan, Inc. v. Plasser Am. Corp.
  747 F.2d 1567· Fed. Cir.· 1984-11-09 ·cited 20×
  The court held that the Canron opinion should not be read as holding that lifting between the axles was necessary to uphold the patent's validity.
• Eilrich v. Remas
  839 F.2d 630· 9th Cir.· 1988-02-17 ·cited 18×
  Collateral estoppel bars a federal civil rights claim if the same issues were resolved in a prior administrative proceeding that would be given preclusive effect under state law, even if that proceeding was not judicially reviewed.
• W. Coal Traffic League v. Interstate Commerce Comm'n & United States
  735 F.2d 1408· D.C. Cir.· 1984-05-22 ·cited 18×
  Parties are precluded from relitigating issues already decided in a prior circuit court case concerning ICC rulemaking standards, and the ICC was not required to reconsider those standards upon their first application.
• Harris v. Jayo
  3 F.4th 1339· 11th Cir.· 2021-07-14 ·cited 15×
  A general default judgment from a Florida state court, based on a multi-count complaint with alternative factual allegations, does not satisfy the 'identical issue' requirement for collateral estoppel in a federal bankruptcy nondischargeability proceeding under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)
• Jalil v. Avdel Corp.
  873 F.2d 701· 3d Cir.· 1989-05-04 ·cited 15×
  The court held that the plaintiff presented sufficient evidence to raise a genuine issue of fact regarding pretext for retaliatory discharge, thus reversing summary judgment on that claim.
• Cinelli v. City OF Revere
  820 F.2d 474· 1st Cir.· 1987-03-20 ·cited 14×
  The court held that a genuine issue of material fact existed regarding whether the defendant suffered prejudice from the communication of his defense strategy to the detectives, thus reversing the grant of summary judgment.
• Nat'l Treas. Emps. Union v. Internal Revenue Serv.
  765 F.2d 1174· D.C. Cir.· 1985-07-09 ·cited 14×
  The court held that the plaintiff's second lawsuit was barred by issue preclusion (collateral estoppel) because the same legal issue had been litigated and decided in a prior action between the same parties.
• Cohen v. Bucci
  905 F.2d 1111· 7th Cir.· 1990-06-28 ·cited 9×
  A debtor's finding of fraudulent transfer in an avoidance proceeding has preclusive effect in a subsequent discharge denial proceeding, even if the debtor lacked incentive to litigate the initial action.
• Owens v. Dewitt Treder
  873 F.2d 604· 2d Cir.· 1989-04-20 ·cited 8×
  The dissenting judge holds that the appellant is barred from relitigating the issue of police coercion in obtaining his confession because the state appellate court's decision was unambiguous in rejecting the claim on the merits.
• Guzowski v. Hartman
  849 F.2d 252· 6th Cir.· 1988-06-20 ·cited 8×
  The court should affirm the district court's dismissal of the second action, as the prior dismissal with prejudice bars relitigation of claims that were or could have been brought.
• In re Lockard v. Lockard
  884 F.2d 1171· 9th Cir.· 1989-09-05 ·cited 6×
  The court held that the state court's unsigned minute entry order was not sufficiently final or appealable to have preclusive effect, and that the contractor's license bond was not property of the bankruptcy estate, thus the automatic stay did not apply to the action against the
• Steve D. Thompson Trucking, Inc. v. Dorsey Trailers, Inc.
  870 F.2d 1044· 5th Cir.· 1989-04-26 ·cited 6×
  A dismissal with prejudice based on a statute of limitations in one federal diversity action has res judicata effect on a duplicative action filed in another federal district court.
• In re Daley v. Daley
  776 F.2d 834· 9th Cir.· 1985-11-13 ·cited 6×
  The court held that res judicata and collateral estoppel do not bar creditors from raising fraud claims in a bankruptcy dischargeability proceeding, even if those claims were dismissed with prejudice in a prior action.
• Dracos v. Hellenic Lines Ltd.
  705 F.2d 1392· 4th Cir.· 1983-04-27 ·cited 6×
  The court held that collateral estoppel does not apply to facts regarding a shipowner's base of operations and American contacts when there has been a significant lapse of time, due to the dynamic nature of the shipping industry.
• John H. Hartley, Jr., M.D. v. Mentor Corp.
  869 F.2d 1469· Fed. Cir.· 1989-03-14 ·cited 4×
  A prior judgment holding a patent invalid, even if entered by stipulation, can preclude relitigation of that validity issue by a third party, provided the issue was actually litigated and essential to the judgment.
• Arab African Int'l Bank v. Epstein
  958 F.2d 532· 3d Cir.· 1992-03-09
  The court held that the doctrine of issue preclusion does not bar the Bank from relitigating the issue of its reliance on the attorney's opinion letter because the appellate court did not affirm both independent grounds for the prior decision.
• O'Leary v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.
  923 F.2d 1062· 3d Cir.· 1991-01-22
  The court held that collateral estoppel barred relitigation of the issue whether the Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act's exclusive remedy provision applied, even though there may have been an intervening change in the law, because the current action arose from the same disp