Selchert v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting an expansive reading of section 668.2 to include unnamed but “indispensable” parties
• before issue preclusion applies, the determination of the issue in the prior action must have been necessary and essential to the resulting judgment
• the doctrine of issue preclusion prevents a party to a prior action from relitigat-ing an issue raised and resolved in the previous suit
• although plaintiffs unsatisfied judgment in first case did not bar subsequent, new action against different defendant, collateral estoppel barred relitigation of issue on “extent of [plaintiffs] injuries”
• although plaintiff’s unsatisfied judgment in first case did not bar subsequent, new action against different defendant, collateral estoppel barred relitigation of issue on “extent of [plaintiff’s] injuries”
• “Res judicata as claim preclusion applies when a litigant has brought an action, an adjudication has occurred, and the litigant is thereafter foreclosed from further litigation on the claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).