James Pettaway v. Charles Plummer, Sheriff of Alameda County

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• district court's rejection of one of two alternative grounds for civil forfeiture, when it accepted the other ground, was necessary to its judgment
• “The primary purpose of the rule that prior resolution of an issue will have collateral estoppel effect only if it was necessarily decided is to ensure that the finder of fact in the first case took sufficient care in determining the issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).