Matlock v. Powell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that collateral estoppel did not bar the litigation of an issue under Arizona law where California law was applied in the prior suit, because the issues were not “identical”
• where a “different rule of law applies,” issues not 16 identical
• issues not identical where “different rule of law applies”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).