District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania March 18, 1981, Civ. A. 78-3212 (Kelly v. Warminster Township Board of Supervisors)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GILES, District Judge.

The issue raised by defendants’ motion to dismiss is whether either under the principles of

res judicata

or collateral estoppel this federal action for damages for alleged violations of constitutional and statutory rights

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is barred by reason of a prior state

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court proceeding.