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Law term
Collateral estoppel (CE), known in modern terminology as issue preclusion, is a common law estoppel doctrine that prevents a person from relitigating an issue. One summary is that, "once a court has decided an issue of fact or law necessary to its judgment, that decision... preclude[s] relitigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action involving a party to the first case". The rati... Wikipedia