· 8/14/1987
Melvin Wicker v. Board of Education of Knott County, Kentucky
Citations
- 826 F.2d 442
- 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 10768
- 56 U.S.L.W. 2103
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that Kentucky state-court decisions precluded a fired superintendent from relitigating whether he actually mishandled the school system’s financial affairs and whether that was legal grounds for termination
- noting that Kentucky may not apply its preclusion rules as strictly to questions of law and that different standards of proof may render issue preclusion rules inapplicable
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Judges: Engel, Boggs, Hillman
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