LEVITIN v. ROSENTHAL

Civ.A. No. CV-89-3936 (DGT).

903 F.Supp. 400 (1995)

Lazar LEVITIN, Plaintiff, v. Norman L. ROSENTHAL and Marshall W. Rosenthal, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

October 24, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lazar Levitin, New York City, Pro Se.

Morgan, Melhuish, Monaghan, Arvidson, Abrutyn & Lisowski, Livingston, NJ, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TRAGER, District Judge.

This case raises what appears to be the novel question of whether one is collaterally estopped from raising an issue which presumably need not have been addressed in an inquest proceeding, but, in this instance, was actually litigated. The question arises in the following context.

Background

The plaintiff, Lazar Levitin, brought this legal malpractice action in 1989 based on the defendants...

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