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The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of Pellerin's § 1983 civil rights claims on collateral estoppel grounds, finding that the Superior Court's denial of his motion to dismiss in the criminal proceeding was sufficiently final and on the merits to preclude relitigation of the issues in civil court.
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