POFF, J., dissenting. I dissent from the majority’s holding. That is not to say that I advocate abandonment of the mutuality requirement of the collateral-estoppel doctrine. Rather, I believe that the requirement should be applied selectively and never ritualistically and that its application here is ill justified. The mutuality question arises in…
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