Department Hrs v. Bjm

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• noting that Florida courts have emphasized that judgment by estoppel \precludes relitigation of issues actually litigated in a prior proceeding\
• stating that the Supreme Court of Florida “will not hesitate to subject the [HRS] to tort liability when its negligently conducted operational level activities expose children to specific foreseeable dangers that result in physical injuries to children”
• claiming a state agency acted negligently in deciding where to place a juvenile offender and choosing what services to offer him
• the Department must constantly take into account budgetary constraints when deciding how to allocate its limited funds among a virtually unlimited number of needs
• application of the doctrine of collateral estoppel requires that the issues relevant to the subsequent action were actually fully litigated in the prior action
• \Collateral estoppel is a judicial doctrine which in general terms prevents identical parties from relitigating the same issues that have already been decided.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).