Coles Cranes, Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that issue preclusion can bar the second contest of an issue if it has been “resolved by a prior judgment.”
• explaining that, in such circumstances, “[t]he Government is barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause from challenging the acquittal”
• “The parties use the expression ‘collateral estoppel [],’ but as this Court has observed, ‘issue preclusion’ is the more descriptive term.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).