Dearborn Heights School District No 7 v. Wayne County MEA/NEA

How courts have described this case

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• “noting that a key determination concerning whether an earlier proceeding controls a later one is whether ‘the same facts or evi dence are essential to the maintenance of two actions’ ”
• also noting that holding otherwise runs the risk “of having two different panels issue two potentially opposing opinions concerning one factual issue”
• also noting that holding otherwise runs the risk “of having two different panels issue two potentially opposing opinions concerning one factual issue”
• \Collateral estoppel bars relitigation of issues where the parties had a full and fair opportunity to litigate those issues in an earlier action.\
• “Collateral estoppel bars relitigafion of issues where the parties had a full and fair opportunity to litigate those issues in an earlier action.”
• doctrine of collateral estoppel prevented employee and her union from arbitrating the issue of whether employee had committed a battery on fellow worker because the State Tenure Commission had previously found that she had committed the battery

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