Ergo Science, Inc. v. Martin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the doctrine of judicial estoppel, as a matter of federal procedure, entitles federal judges to rely on “statements made by counsel in open court relinquishing a specific claim”
• holding that claimant to funds deposited ■ with the court in inter-pleader proceeding was judicially estopped from claiming entitlement to funds as a result of counsel’s statement disavowing any interest in the deposited funds
• stating “judicial estoppel prevents a party from asserting a position in a legal proceeding that is contrary to a position previously taken in ... some earlier proceeding”
• \Judicial estoppel prevents a party from asserting a position in a legal proceeding that is contrary to a position previously taken in the same proceeding.\
• judicial estoppel doctrine prevents a party from asserting a position in a legal proceeding that is contrary to a position previously taken in the same or some earlier proceeding
• an interpleader claimant had standing to appeal where “the very issue on appeal is whether [the claimant] has waived its interest in the interpleaded funds or not”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).