City of Pittsburgh v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

How courts have described this case

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• reliance on city permits that had been obtained on false information in permit applications held to be self-created hardship
• “Settlements ‘ordinarily occasion no issue preclusion,’ unless the parties clearly ‘intend their agreement to have such an effect.’” (quoting Arizona v. California, 530 U.S. 392, 414 (2000)
• res judicata and collateral estoppel require, inter alia, identity of matter sued upon
• issue preclusion forecloses relitigation in a later action of an issue of law or fact that was actually litigated and necessary to the original judgment, citing Clark v. Troutman, 509 Pa. 336, 340, 502 A.2d 137, 139 (1985)
• application of res judicata requires identity of the thing sued for, identify of the cause of action, identity of persons and parties to the action, and identify of the quality or capacity in the persons for or against whom the claim is made

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).