Collateral estoppel (CE), known in modern terminology as issue preclusion, is a common law estoppel doctrine that prevents a person from relitigating an issue. One summary is that `once a court has decided an issue of fact or law necessary to its judgment, that decision ... preclude[s] relitigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of a....
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Rule that bars relitigation between the same parties of a particular issue or determinative fact when there is a prior judgment.
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(from the article `procedural law`) The related doctrine of collateral estoppel (also called issue preclusion) precludes the parties from relitigating, in a second suit based on a ...
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It is a doctrine which prevents a party from engaging in a different legal proceeding , the issue, which was already judged in some previous case. The same party is legally bound by the previous judgement.
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The federal courts have traditionally adhered to the related doctrines of res judicata [claim preclusion] and collateral estoppel [issue preclusion]. Under collateral estoppel, once a court has decided an issue of fact or law ncessary to its judgment, that decision may preclude relitigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action invo...
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A legal doctrine that says that a judgment in one case prevents (estops) a party to that suit from trying to litigate the same issue in another legal action. Also called issue preclusion.
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