California Court of Appeal

A plaintiff in a small claims court action may not relitigate, in a subsequent related action, an issue decided against him in the small claims action, based on collateral estoppel, where the record is sufficiently clear as to the issue actually litigated and decided in the small claims court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/28/2004
• Published 07/28/2004

Judges

•  AARON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•   of Richard K. Dwyer and Ellen Jean Dowd, Poway, for Petitioner., Pollak, Vida & Fisher, Matthew H. Fisher, Michael Meir Pollak, Los Angeles;  Law Office of Lionel Souvenir, Alta Dena, and Todd Griffin Glanz, San Diego, for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.