TOBY HEYTENS, Circuit Judge:
When a panel of this Court decides a legal issue in a published opinion, that ruling is binding on all future panels and district courts within this circuit unless it is abrogated by the Supreme Court or by an en banc decision of this Court. That rule does not disappear just because a future litigant identifies a fact...
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