inconsistent-positions

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-592 Jeffrey Isaacs v. USC Keck School of Medicine, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation decade-and-a-half Gibson-Dunn inconsistent-positions judicial-estoppel legal-ethics medical-license oath settlement-agreement USC whistleblower-claims Under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, should the lower courts have upheld the sanctity of the oath and estopped USC and Gibson Dunn from arguing in…
18-6694 Timothy Weakley v. Eagle Logistics, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-discretion due-process inconsistent-position inconsistent-positions judicial-discretion judicial-estoppel new-hampshire-v-maine standing v-amendment Whether a district court within the context of a judicial estoppel claim exceeds the boundaries of judicial discretion when it dismisses plaintiff's 1…