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091069P.pdf   01/05/2010  Keith Smith  v.  Bayer Corporation
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1069
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Smith and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Class Actions. In the context of multi-district litigation,
   certification in a state court of the same class under the same legal
   theories previously rejected by the federal district court presents an issue
   sufficiently identical to warrant issue preclusion under federal common
   law, and the district court did not err in granting defendants' motion for
   an injunction prohibiting relitigation of the certification issue in state
   court.