The New Jersey Appellate Division case of Commerce Limited Partnership, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Edison Furniture, LLC, Defendant-Respondent, 2020 WL 820338, is a cautionary tale on the use of estoppel ...

The justice penned an opinion in a unanimous decision in a bankruptcy case, asking that judicial estoppel be reconsidered.

In an opinion published June 11, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated and remanded a case involving a Chapter 13 debtor who was judicially ...

"Today’s decision [on judicial estoppel] is straightforward," Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote. "The Fifth Circuit artificially narrowed its inquiry into whether Keathley’s bankruptcy-schedule ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued its opinion in Minerva Surgical Inc. v. Hologic Inc. The case sought to abolish the ...

When a law firm or lawyer faces such inconsistency in an action brought against them, the doctrine of judicial estoppel emerges as a potentially helpful defense. This doctrine prevents litigants from ...

With props to Rodney Dangerfield, some legal documents just don’t get no respect—or at least are not regarded with the importance deserved. That innocuous looking two-page form that the landlord just ...

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Schrödinger’s cat, famously, alive and dead at the same time, would have felt at home in the Department of Government Efficiency. Depending on the legal issue at hand, DOGE claims to be both part of ...

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