Elsas v. Montgomery Elevator Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “[t]he greater weight of federal authority . . . supports the position that judicial estoppel applies to a party’s stated . . . legal assertion”
• explaining that the plaintiff waived their challenge to defendant’s discovery objection by failing to bring a motion to compel
• explaining that the plaintiff waived their challenge to defendant’s discovery objection by failing to bring a motion to compel
• stating in an analogous Ninth Circuit case that, without a contract between the defendant-attorney and his client, which creates the lawyer’s duty, the third-party plaintiffs would have no legal malpractice claim
• \Courts have extended the right to sue for breach of contract to intended third-party beneficiaries.\
• failure to obtain information was plaintiffs’ fault when they did not challenge the 3 assertion of privilege or bring a motion to compel production

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).