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141331P.pdf 06/11/2015 Michelle Ideker v. Harley-Davidson, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-1331
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Loken and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil Procedure. The district court's decision in a prior
action between the parties holding that Missouri's labor and industrial
relations commission had exclusive statutory authority to hear plaintiff's
occupational disease claim was a final decision that can be given
preclusive effect; plaintiff's argument that collateral estoppel does not
apply in her case because of intervening decisions by the Missouri Court
of Appeals is rejected as the district court did not err in determining
that its prior decision, right or wrong, was preclusive; it would not be
fundamentally unfair to apply collateral estoppel to the facts of the
case.