Legal Opinion
Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 9, 1979No. 77-1305PublishedCited by 4,038 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
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 Court. The complaint alleged that the petitioners, Parklane Hosiery Co., Inc. (Parklane), and 13 of its officers, directors, and stockholders, had issued a materially false and misleading proxy statement in connection with a…
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