O'leary, Robert and O'leary, Patricia, H/w v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that causes of action were not the same where one would require establishing “many more facts” than necessary to the other action
• rejecting the notion that an issue is not essential merely because it could have been avoided “under some hypothetical resolution of the dispute”
• applying the law of Pennsylvania that adopts the requirements of Restatement, Judgments 2d (1982)
• applying the law of Pennsylvania that adopts the requirements of Restatement, Judgments 2d (1982)
• exception applies when collateral es-toppel would “give one person a favored position in the current administration of a law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).