New Mexico Supreme Court· 11/3/1987

Silva v. State

Citations

745 P.2d 380
106 N.M. 472

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holding that court may apply collateral estoppel “when a defendant seeks to preclude a plaintiff from relitigating an issue the plaintiff has previously litigated and lost regardless of whether defendant was privy to the prior suit”
finding that the adoption of the Duran consent decree did not alter the standard for negligence
explaining that a respondeat superior claim against a governmental entity requires an underlying tort by the entity’s employee
noting that doctrine of respondeat superior applies under Tort Claims Act
noting that a public entity can only act through its employees
approving of Parklane Hosiery v. Shore, 439 U.S. 322, 99 S.Ct. 645, 58 L.Ed.2d 552 (1979) and adopting nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel into New Mexico law

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Judges: Ransom, Minzner, Sosa, Walters, Scarborough, Stowers, Hendley, Donnelly

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