United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co.
1966 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Company, 384 U.S. 394 (1966), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that "(w)hen an administrative agency is acting in a judicial capacity and resolves disputed issues of fact properly before it which the parties have had an adequate opportunity to litigate, the courts have not hesitated to apply res judicata to enforce repose."[1] Utah Construction established a two-part test to determine whether res judicata effect should be given to an administrative determination. First, the agency proceeding must be examined to determine whether the agency was "acting in a judicial capacity" and whether the parties had "an adequate opportunity to litigate" the issues before the agency. Second, the general rules of res judicata must be applied to the case. Not all administrative adjudications, and not all judicial determinations, are entitled to res judicata effect. For the principles of res judicata to apply, administrative determinations, like court judgments, must be valid, final and on the merits.
United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Company | |
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Argued March 23–24, 1966 Decided June 6, 1966 | |
Full case name | United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Company |
Citations | 384 U.S. 394 (more) 86 S. Ct. 1545; 16 L. Ed. 2d 642; 1966 U.S. LEXIS 2747 |
Case history | |
Prior | 339 F.2d 606 (Ct. Cl. 1965) (aff'd in part and rev'd in part) |
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Case opinion | |
Majority | White, joined by unanimous |
Laws applied | |
Tucker Act; Wunderlich Act |