Legal Opinion
Bruno v. Bruno
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 12, 2011PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Acosta, J.
This action requires us to apply the doctrine of collateral estoppel to a judicial determination of a sister state. Specifically, we consider the preclusive effect of a determination in a contempt motion in the context of a divorce proceeding in Connecticut, which expressly found that the husband and his former employer did not engage in a fraudulent scheme to deprive the wife of assets in equitable distribution, on a New York action subsequently commenced by the wife alleging the same fraud. Applying the well-established principles of collateral estoppel, we…
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