Opinion ID: 2520001
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: certain adverse coca issue resolutions, which the parties have failed to re-press or otherwise tender on certiorari, are declared to constitute settled law of the case

Text: ¶ 6 The settled-law-of-the-case doctrine bars from relitigation issues finally determined in the review process or those that the aggrieved party has failed to raise in the course of the appellate contest. [12] Issues resolved by COCA but not explicitly re-pressed for certiorari review are deemed abandoned and beyond this court's cognizance for corrective relief. [13] ¶ 7 COCA held the trial court correctly gave summary relief to J.C. Penney on four theories of liability advanced by Waltersassault and battery, malicious prosecution, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. [14] Walters has failed to preserve these issues for corrective relief by timely including them in a petition for certiorari. The correctness of these adverse COCA dispositions now lies beyond the scope of this court's reviewing cognizance. ¶ 8 COCA declared that the actionability of the remaining three theories of recovery false imprisonment, slander and pecuniary damagespresents material issues of fact for the jury and are hence unfit for summary disposition. J.C. Penney's certiorari argument addresses only the first issue, that of false imprisonment. Because it has failed to press for review COCA's resolution of the slander and pecuniary damages issues, they too are deemed waived. No relief avails any longer from those adverse COCA dispositions. [15] The sole remaining issue tendered for corrective relief by certiorari proceedings now before us is the actionable and triable character of Walters' false imprisonment claim.