G-I Holdings, Inc. v. Reliance Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• noting that judicial estoppel may be applied to neutralize threats to judicial integrity even if a court has not accepted the initial position
• stating that, under New Jersey law, the reasonable expectations of the insured may overcome the plain meaning of a policy only under “exceptional circumstances”
• noting that judicial estoppel can apply if the party asserting a new position previously “convince[ed] the District Court to accept its earlier position”
• noting that judicial estoppel may be applied to neutralize threats to judicial integrity even if a court has not accepted the initial position
• “[Jjudicial estoppel is generally not appropriate where the defending party did not convince the District Court to accept its earlier position.”
• “[I]n our Circuit judicial estoppel is generally not appropriate where the defending party did not convince the District Court to accept its earlier position.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).