state civil rights laws. Id. As noted by Professor Bonfield, “the federal act ... recognizes the continued effectiveness of state fair employment laws and provides that they will retain a vital and perhaps dominant role in this area.” Arthur E. Bonfield, The Substance of American Fair Employment Practices Legislation I: Employers, 61 Nw. U. L. Rev. 907, 919 (1967). A 23, 335 (4th Cir. 2013) (finding a prior case to have no precedential value on a question because the issue was not contested in the earlier case); Goldberger v. Integrated Res., Inc., 209 F.3d 43, 49 (2d Cir. 2000) (earlier case was not precedent because “that issue was neither contested by the parties, nor addressed by the panel”); Fulton Found. v. Wis. Dep’t of Taxation, 13 Wis.2d 1, 108 N.W.2d 312, 316-17 (1961) (<HOLDING>); Silver Lake Sanitary Dist. v. Wis. Dep’t of
holding that the supreme court will not issue advisory opinion on issue not before the court holding a prior case was not precedent on an issue when the issue was not contested holding that remand was meaningless on one issue but still remanding the case to the agency on another issue holding that claim preclusion did not apply even though the legal theory at issue in that case was addressed in a previous case because the case at issue was based on a different set of operative facts holding previous case when no one challenged the issue could not be precedent on the issue