Backlund v. Stanley-Snow (In Re Stanley-Snow)

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• explaining that “courts have ruled that the ‘actual litigation’ requirement of collateral estoppel may be satisfied if the party actively or substantially participated” in the prior proceedings
• noting that “in determining whether an issue was actually litigated and decided, a federal court is free to go beyond the judgment ... and examine the pleadings and evidence in the prior action”
• collateral estoppel requires the issue in the prior adjudication to be identical to the issue in the current litigation
• “most federal courts of appeal have recognized an exception to the general rule that collateral estoppel does not apply to a default judgment,” where party chooses not to defend in prior action
• “To apply the doctrine [of collateral estoppel], a court must determine that: (1) there was a valid and final judgment on the merits in the prior adjudication; (2) the party against whom estoppel is asserted was a party (or in privity with a party

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