Olson v. United States Ex Rel. Department of Treasury (In Re Olson)

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• finding that the “actual litigation” requirement of collateral estoppel cannot, as a matter of logic, be satisfied in the presence of consent judgment
• requiring that parties could have reasonably foreseen the conclusiveness of their actions
• declaring the purely contractual nature of consent judgments and asserting primacy of parties’ intent
• \Summary judgment is an appropriate mechanism for deciding whether a prior determination by a court of competent jurisdiction should be given collateral estopped effect in a nondischargeability action.\
• consent judgment by Tax Court assessing civil fraud penalties on Chapter 7 debtors did not finally resolve issue of fraud, and thus would not be given collateral estoppel effect in nondischargeability proceeding
• “[B]ankruptcy courts are vested with the exclusive jurisdiction to determine the nondischargeability of debts.”

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