Bridgeway Corporation v. Citibank, Doing Business as Citicorp N.A.

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• finding that the Liberian “judicial system, already hampered by inefficiency and corruption, collapsed for six months following the outbreak of fighting” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that granting summary judgment on an issue without prior notice and opportunity to defend is “firmly discouraged” in the Second Circuit
• requiring that the party’s prior factual statements be “clearly contradictory to its present position” for judicial estoppel to apply
• noting that a party challenging the admission of a putative public record must demonstrate “a lack of trustworthiness” in the document
• recognizing reduced threat of procedural prejudice where court’s sua sponte determination is based on issues identical to the raised by the moving party
• noting that Rule 803(8) for public records “is based upon the assumption that public officers will perform their duties, [and] that they lack motive to falsify”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).