Cosby v. Department of Human Resources

How courts have described this case

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

• considering whether adjudication of neglect precludes the same issue in subsequent administrative child neglect reporting process
• “[s]tatutes in derogation of the common law are strictly construed” (internal quotations and citation omitted) (alteration in original)
• \it is not to be presumed that the [L]egislature ... intended to make any alteration in the common law other than what has been specified and plainly pronounced\
• “When an issue of fact or law is actually litigated and determined by a valid and final judgment, and the determination is essential to the judgment, the determination is conclusive in a subsequent action between the parties, 19 whether on the same or a different claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).