Howard v. Sandoval

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a default judgment does not generate issue preclusion because no issue is actually and necessarily litigated
• concluding that an issue was not actually and necessarily litigated, such that issue preclusion did not apply, when the defendant never \participate[d] in any manner in the prior case\ and a default judgment was entered
• relying on Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 27 (1982)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).