The following excerpt is from Maurer v. Los Angeles County, 944 F.2d 909 (9th Cir. 1991):
The party asserting the estoppel bears the burden of pleading and proving what issues were decided in his favor in the previous action. Hernandez v. City of Los Angeles, 624 F.2d 935, 937 (9th Cir.1980).
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