PARKLANE HOSIERY CO. v. SHORE

No. 77-1305.

439 U.S. 322 (1979)

PARKLANE HOSIERY CO., INC., ET AL. v. SHORE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 9, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack B. Levitt argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Irving Parker, Joseph N. Salomon, and Robert N. Cooperman.

Samuel K. Rosen argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.*

Joel D. Joseph filed a brief for the Washington Legal Foundation as amicus curiae.


MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question whether a party who has had issues of fact adjudicated adversely to it in an equitable action may be collaterally estopped from relitigating the same issues before a jury in a subsequent legal action brought against it by a new party.

The respondent brought this stockholder's class action against the petitioners in a Federal District...

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