Corcoran v. Department of Social Services

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that beneficiary of “general” support trust “has a legal right” to “compel distribution” of funds (internal quotation marks omitted)
• ‘‘[i]t is well settled that in the construction of a testamentary trust, the expressed intent of the testator must control’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “To invoke collateral estoppel the issues sought to be litigated in the new proceeding must be identical to those considered in the prior proceeding.”
• “Because we have recognized that applying the doctrine of collateral estoppel has harsh consequences, namely, cutting off a party’s right to future litigation on a given issue, we have been reluctant to uphold the invocation of the doctrine unless the issues are completely identical.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).