Fulton Iron Works v. North Center Creek Mining & Smelting Co.

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• holding that, on balance, the judicial economy policy underlying the doctrine does not justify invoking collateral estoppel in that case
• concluding that doctrine of collateral estoppel could not be applied offensively in perjury prosecution so as to preclude litigation of primary substantive issue involving a specific finding of fact made by a jury in a prior criminal trial against the defendant
• collateral estoppel in criminal setting must be applied “with realism and rationality,” and not hypertechnically

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