Proceedings claiming the State is vicariously liable for acts of judicial officers in the exercise of judicial functions, or that the Commonwealth owes a duty of care to individual litigants to monitor and correct judicial decisions, disclose no arguable cause of action and constitute an abuse of process. Directing a collateral attack on judicial decisions at parties other than those involved in the earlier proceedings does not overcome the public policy considerations underlying res judicata and issue estoppel.
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