Higgins v. Walls

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that issue preclusion existed in a civil trial as the result of a criminal adjudication because the fact finder’s determination “[is] more conclusive (beyond a reasonable doubt) than the probability standard at work in [a civil trial].”
• “[A] nonparty will be bound when its interests were represented adequately by a party in the original suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).