Carlino East Brandywine v. East Brandywine Twp. — Collateral Estoppel Cannot Rest on a Prior Dismissal for Lack of Standing
The Commonwealth Court vacated a permanent injunction granted in a decade-long Chester County land development dispute, holding that the trial court wrongly applied collateral estoppel: because the prior declaratory judgment action was dismissed for lack of standing, the issues were never actually litigated, and the identity-of-issues element was independently unsatisfied because the prior case turned on the Prevailing Wage Act while the injunction proceeding did not.