In Johnson v. GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., ___ Cal.App.4th ___ (Sept. 19, 2008), the Court of Appeal (Second Appellate District, Division Seven) expressed a great deal of skepticism about the legal underpinnings of a notorious decision from 2006 on the operation of collateral estoppel in the class action context, Alvarez v. May Department Stores Co., 143 Cal.App.4th 1223 (2006) (see this blog post for more on Alvarez). The Complex Litigator has more on Johnson in this post.
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