PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Judicial Arbitration
......Entry of Award
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Judgment shall be entered in amount of judicial arbitration award (unless trial de novo requested).

Judgment entered 60 days after judicial arbitration award filed.

Clerk serves notice of entry on all parties who appeared in case.

After judicial arbitration, party may move to vacate judgment on ground that arbitrator was subject to disqualification not disclosed or enumerated statutory grounds.

Final judicial arb award, if clear and unambiguous, is res judicata in later proceeding on same cause of action; not barred here since X-complaint stated different cause of action.

Judicial arbitration awards should not be accorded issue preclusion effect; unfair to give collateral estoppel effect to judicially arbitrated resolutions of issues.