SUFFOLK INTERRELIGIOUS COALITION ON HOUS., INC. v. TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN


120 A.D.2d 518 (1986)

Suffolk Interreligious Coalition On Housing, Inc., et al., Respondents, v. Town of Brookhaven et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

May 5, 1986


Order affirmed, with costs.

Special Term correctly rejected the defendants' contention that the plaintiffs should be collaterally estopped from litigating their allegations of exclusionary and discriminatory zoning. In order to invoke the doctrine of collateral estoppel "[t]here must be an identity of issue which has necessarily been decided in the prior action and is decisive of the present action, and * * * there must...

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