Legal Opinion
Aufderhar v. Data Dispatch, Inc.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided March 9, 1990No. C7-88-2006PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLEY, Justice.
The question presented by this case is whether a defendant in a common law motor vehicle negligence action may invoke the doctrine of collateral estoppel to prevent the common law plaintiff from relit-igating the amount of his personal injury damage claim when that precise issue had been previously determined in an uninsured motorist arbitration hearing between the plaintiff and the uninsured motorist insurance carrier. We hold that within the factual posture presented by this case the plaintiff may be collaterally estopped.
The material facts are not in dispute. On a March day…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Edward L. Greenblatt v. Drexel Burnham Lambert, IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Ellis v. Minneapolis Commission on Civil RightsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1982
- Coca Cola Co. v. Pepsi-Cola Co.Superior Court of Delaware · 1934
- Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 91,615 Wayne E. Pierson and Ruth E. Pierson v. Dean, Witter, Reynolds, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
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