Vournas v. United States

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• noting that \`[c]ollateral estoppel cannot apply when the party against whom the earlier decision is asserted did not have a \full and fair opportunity\ to litigate that issue in the earlier case'\
• “Depending on the circumstances, a low five figure 14 judgment may be a stiff fine that deters, while a high five figure judgment puts a bar out of 15 business.”
• “Under the full faith and credit statute, federal courts must give the judicial proceedings of any state court the same preclusive effect that those judgments would be given by the courts of that state.” (citing 28 U.S.C. § 1738)

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