preclusion

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Critics may argue that issue preclusion, like universal injunctions, has the potential to chill executive action.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025

"The chambers rejects the petition for preclusion of the investigation for the crimes of penal bribery and procedural fraud."

From Reuters • Apr. 28, 2022

“The negative decision of the Friars cannot be seen as a preclusion to going ahead with Fr. Judge’s cause,” Escalante wrote.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2021

At one point Alito excoriates Breyer for relying solely on the Restatement of Judgments treatise rather than precedent to justify his ruling that claim preclusion doesn’t bar the petitioners from bringing this suit.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016

I have, in a former letter, alluded to the prevalence of the Presbyterian church government in Mississippi, to the preclusion of Congregationalists.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt