Brennan Packing Co. v. Cosmopolitan Shipping Co.

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• explaining that adjudicators are “generally accorded wide discretion to determine when offensive collateral estoppel should be applied”
• “Such a duty ordinarily arises where the parties are in a fiduciary or other relationship signifying a heightened level of trust.”
• “[A] disclosure duty ripens only when it becomes apparent to the non-disclosing party that another party is operating under a mistaken perception of a material fact.”
• “Although the releases shield the [defendants] from any liability for any conduct through their effective dates, they do not protect the [defendants] from liability arising from any subsequent conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).