Sanders v. Favorable Realty Corp.

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• noting that collateral estoppel analysis of whether state court judgment is entitled to preclusive effect is determined, in part, by whether there exists “a judgment on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction”
• noting that res judicata “holds that, as to the parties in a litigation and those in privity with them, a judgment on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction is conclusive of the issues of fact and questions of law necessarily decided therein in any subsequent action”
• collateral estoppel permits determination of issue raised in subsequent action by reference to previous action
• collateral estoppel permits determination of issue raised in subsequent action by reference to previous action
• ‘In the assignor-assignee relationship, privity must have arisen after the event out of which the estoppel arises.’’’
• fundamental principle of justice that person entitled to day in court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).