The following excerpt is from Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Washington, 20-35346, 20-35353 (9th Cir. 2021):
We now turn to de novo review of the district court's dismissal based on issue preclusion. See Garity v. APWU Nat'l Lab. Org., 828 F.3d 848, 854 (9th Cir. 2016) ("We . . . review the district court's ruling on issue preclusion de novo.").
Issue preclusion, which "bars the relitigation of issues actually adjudicated in previous litigation," applies where four conditions are met:
Janjua v. Neufeld, 933 F.3d 1061, 1065 (9th Cir. 2019) (citations omitted).
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