Rue v. K-Mart Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that principles of collateral estoppel do not bind courts in civil actions relative to decisions of unemployment compensation referees
• recognizing “the body of caselaw concerning the pre-clusive effect of workers’ compensation proceedings” and citing Capobianchi with approval
• declining to apply collateral estoppel where there existed \substantial procedural and economic disparities between unemployment compensation proceedings and later civil proceedings\
• setting forth the elements of the doctrine of collateral estoppel under Pennsylvania law
• discussing the intersection of an incentive to litigate and collateral estoppel
• discussing the intersection of an incentive to litigate and collateral estoppel

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