In re T. M. G.

Sears, Presiding Justice.

This Court granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ ruling that appellants are collaterally estopped from seeking to adopt TMG, because appellants “acted and were treated as parties” in appellees’ earlier adoption proceeding.1 This Court, however, has previously held that appellants were not parties to appellees’ adoption proceeding. Moreover, the issue to be decided in appellants’ current action was neither directly nor implicitly decided in the appellees’ previous action. It follows that appellants were not collaterally estopped from pursuing their own…