Ross v. Lawson

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• finding that a plaintiff in a civil assault case may collaterally estop defendant with a prior conviction for criminal assault arising from the same incident from contesting liability
• approving of the use of offensive collateral estoppel to bar the defendant from relitigating his liability for assault following the defendant’s assault conviction
• using collateral estoppel to bar re-litigation of the issue of liability for assault in a civil lawsuit when the defendant had been criminally convicted of the assault
• plaintiff in civil action may assert judgment in a preceding criminal action against party who is a defendant in both cases
• defendant found guilty of criminal assault is estopped from contesting liability in civil action
• defendant found guilty of criminal assault is estopped from contesting liability in civil action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).