Opinion ID: 1143673
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Heading: Foreseeability of the Feights' Action.

Text: Whether the party against whom preclusion is asserted could have foreseen the second action is a factor courts should consider in deciding whether to give collateral estoppel effect to a prior adjudication. Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 28(5)(b) (1981). The Feights' action was clearly foreseeable in that the Murrays voluntarily dismissed their appeal in the BW action some six months after the Feights filed their lawsuit. They cannot, therefore, claim that the filing of the Feights' action was unforeseeable. Moreover, the Murrays themselves had raised the issue of consent as an answer and affirmative defense in the Feight action before their attorney executed the stipulation requesting dismissal of their appeal in BW. The Murrays' claim that the issue of consent in the context of the Feights' lawsuit was unforeseeable is wholly without merit.