Gaumond v. Trinity Repertory Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that \[t]he burden of establishing entitlement to nondisclosure rests on the party resisting discovery\
• stating that judicial estoppel is an extraordinary form of relief, invoked in the court's discretion, and only applied when the equities are clearly balanced in favor of the party seeking relief
• referring the reader to New Hampshire v. Maine , 532 U.S. 742 , 749-56 (2001) for \an extensive discussion of the doctrine\
• prohibiting parties from avoiding disclosure of unfavorable evidence behind a cloak of confidentiality by stating that \[a] party may not hide behind confidentiality to avoid disclosure of unfavorable evidence[]\
• applying the concept that “a defendant [in a criminal case] may not complain of testimony on appeal when such testimony was brought out by [the] defendant himself” to issues raised in the civil context (quoting State v. Harris, 871 A.2d 341, 345-46 (R.I. 2005))
• doctrine of judicial estoppel protects integrity of judicial system by prohibiting parties from deliberately changing positions to assert an inconsistent position

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).