Opinion ID: 451866
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Text: 34 MKT raises an additional threshold objection. It claims that the crew selection issues were decided in the opinion accompanying the Missouri District Court's injunction prohibiting UTU from striking, see Missouri Pacific R. Co. v. United Transportation Union, supra, 580 F.Supp. 1490, appeal pending, and that issue preclusion prevents this court from reaching the issues. This argument is frivolous. Despite broad dicta, the District Court recognized that it had no power to consider the validity of ICC orders. See id. at 1502 (The United States Courts of Appeals are vested with exclusive jurisdiction to determine the validity of orders of the ICC.). Thus there can be no preclusive effects on this court's review of the validity of the ICC order. See 18 C. WRIGHT, A. MILLER & E. COOPER, FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Sec. 4420 (1981) (The fundamental rationale of issue preclusion dictates the clearly settled requirement that it be limited to matters that have been actually decided.). 35 We thus reject the threshold objections and turn to the merits of the unions' contentions.