Brunson v. Wall

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing defensive non-mutual collateral estoppel where the party precluded had a “ ‘full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the first action . . .’ ”
• where MCAD determined that individual employees’ actions were not based on race, plaintiff was precluded from relitigating same issue in later civil suit even though only the employer, not the individual employees, was a party in MCAD proceeding
• action cannot be sustained against individual whose conduct was at issue but who was not named in MCAD complaint where MCAD decision was given preclusoiy effect to bar action in Superior Court
• “the MCAD qualifies as a ‘court of competent jurisdiction’ ”
• MCAD competent to adjudicate discrimination claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).