Galin v. Internal Revenue Service

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[t]he Second Circuit has not yet decided whether ... judicial estoppel is appropriate in a case involving a good faith failure to disclose assets in a bankruptcy proceeding”
• “A bankruptcy court is considered to have adopted a party’s assertion in a bankruptcy proceeding when it confirms a plan in which creditors release claims against the debtor.”
• The “law is clear that legal advice and ignorance of the law are not defenses to judicial estoppel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).