Beacon Oil Company (Now Known as Ultramar Inc.) v. Hazel R. O'leary, Secretary of Energy

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• “Stare decisis applies only to legal issues that were actually decided in a prior action.”
• “[T]here can be no collateral estoppel against a [party] who has not had ‘a full and fair oppor- tunity to litigate the claim’ at issue.” (second alteration in original) (quoting Mendenhall v. Cedarapids, Inc., 5 F.3d 1557, 1571 (Fed. Cir. 1993)

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