Lierenz v. Bowen

How later courts describe this case

• nature of training and duties of paramedics crucial to the determination of exemption from overtime pay requirements for "fire protection activities"
• general objections to evidence do not preserve an issue for review
• dictum noting that “it is clear that the [Seventh Circuit] has adhered to the general rule in American jurisprudence that a final judgment of a court of first instance can be given collateral estoppel effect even while an appeal is pending”
• calling this proposition -well established