Ex Parte Lonnie Kade Welsh v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• stating that although judicial acceptance of a party’s prior position is not an absolute prerequisite for judicial estoppel, it is “obviously more appropriate” in that situation
• applying judicial estoppel to the mixed question of whether an employment relationship existed
• judicial estoppel is “not necessarily confined to situations where the party asserting the earlier contrary position there prevailed”
• judicial estoppel is basis for affirming trial court granting JNOV on other related grounds
• “In certain circumstances a party may properly be precluded as a matter of law from adopting a legal position in conflict with one earlier taken in the same or related litigation.”
• judicial estoppel may apply where election of remedies would not

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).