Pittman v. LaFontaine

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that when a plaintiff takes “advantage of an alternate administrative mechanism which is quicker and less costly than suit in . . . court, [he is] prohibited additional resort to the judicial system except for appellate review of the adverse determination”
• “[T]he litigant against whom issue preclusion is invoked must have had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the previous tribunal.”
• “To invoke preclusion, it is required that the subsequent action must involve substantially similar or identical causes of action, issues, parties and relief as were involved in the prior action.”
• “[E]ven where . . . a prior decision meets a state’s requirements for claim preclusion, the prior decision will not be given preclusive effect if due process was not provided by the state forum in which the claim was previously litigated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).