California Supreme Court,
Appellate Practice
Nov. 26, 2018
Issue and claim preclusion in the wake of Samara
In a unanimous opinion issued earlier this year, the California Supreme Court made a major change in our state’s law in the area of issue preclusion (formerly known as collateral estoppel) and claim preclusion (formerly known as res judicata).
Sarah Hofstadter
Of Counsel
California Appellate Law Group LLP
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Stanford Univ Law School
Sarah Hofstadter is of counsel with the California Appellate Law Group LLP, an appellate boutique based in San Francisco. She spent more than a dozen years as a research and staff attorney for jurists on the California Courts of Appeal and the 9th Circuit. Find out more about Sarah and the California Appellate Law Group LLP at www.calapplaw.com
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In a unanimous opinion issued earlier this year, the California Supreme Court made a major change in our state's law in the area of issue preclusion (formerly known as collateral estoppel) and claim preclusion (formerly known as res judicata). Specifically, the court held that when a trial court enters a judgment based on two or more independent grounds, and an appellate court then affirms on only one of those grounds, the tr...
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