State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Sallak

How courts have described this case

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• guilty plea to criminal charge is “actually litigated” for preclusive effect because court accepting plea must ensure that plea is founded on fact
• “A proceeding that concludes in a judicial judgment unquestionably satisfies the final requirement of issue preclusion.”
• “An insured may be precluded from contending that insurance coverage is available if, in an earlier proceeding, the facts establishing that coverage is not available have necessarily and conclusively been determined”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).