collateral estoppel
- A legal principle that prevents a party involved in a prior resolved lawsuit from relitigating the same issue in a different suit
- The judge applied the rule of collateral estoppel, barring the parties from relitigating already decided matters.
- Collateral estoppel can be invoked to streamline litigation by avoiding repeated issues.
- Because of collateral estoppel, he could not contest the same issues he disputed in the previous case.
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