Body of Christ Overcoming Church of God, Inc. v. Brinson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring for collateral estoppel that “issue ... had been resolved on the merits in prior litigation”
• requiring for collateral estoppel that “issue . . . had been resolved on the merits in prior litigation”
• affirming grant of summary judgment based on collateral estoppel even though, “strictly speaking,” it was distinct from the res judicata basis asserted by the trial court
• affirming grant of summary judgment on the ground of collateral estoppel rather than res judicata when the issue raised in plaintiff’s new action “had been resolved on the merits in prior litigation”
• requiring for collateral estoppel that “issue ... had been resolved on the merits in prior litigation,” “identity of the parties or their privies between the two actions,” and that “previous litigation was decided by a court of competent jurisdiction”
• requiring for collateral estoppel that “issue . . . had been resolved on the merits in prior litigation,” “identity of the parties or their privies between the two actions,” and that “previous litigation was decided by a court of competent jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).