Legal Opinion
Gramatan Home Investors Corp. v. Lopez
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 15, 1979PublishedCited by 413 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Cooke.
The ultimate issue presented is whether the grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants was proper. The courts below reasoned that the judgment in a consumer fraud action prosecuted successfully by the Attorney-General against plaintiff’s assignor collaterally estopped plaintiff from raising certain matters determined there in this subsequent litigation. We hold to the contrary, since the assignment to plaintiff was made prior to the initiation of the Attorney-General’s suit and therefore plaintiff was not privy to that judgment and is not bound by…
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- Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1912
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