Americana Fabrics, Inc. v. L & L Textiles, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a stipulated protective order does not preclude later litigation of a parent's history of domestic violence
• stating that collateral estoppel bars relitigation “even in an 5 action on a different claim, of all issues of fact or law that were actually litigated and 6 necessarily decided in the prior proceeding.”
• giving preclusive effect to a federal district court’s determination that an arbitration agreement was binding even though that court may have exceeded its statutory authority
• “When the 2 same claim or issue is litigated in two courts, the second court to reach judgment should 3 give res judicata effect to the judgment of the first, regardless of the order in which the two 4 actions were filed.”
• contrasting the first-in-time and last-in-time rules

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