Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kiesewetter

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• requiring “the party against whom the plea is asserted was a party or in privity with a party in the prior case” and “the party or person privy to the party against whom the doctrine is asserted had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the prior proceeding”
• attorney collaterally estopped in bar discipline case on basis of federal court’s civil judgment for fraud established by clear and convincing evidence
• Disbarment as a result of a 1994 federal civil jury verdict entered against respondent for fraud
• “The doctrine of collateral estoppel precludes relitigation of an issue determined in a previous action.”
• “(1) [W]hether the plaintiff could have joined the earlier action; (2) whether the subsequent litigation was foreseeable and therefore the defendant had an incentive to defend the first action vigorously; (3

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