Harry F. Chaveriat, Jr. v. Williams Pipe Line Company

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• court does not abuse its discretion when it prevents unfair prejudice to defendant from admitting evidence that would inject a new claim late in the proceedings
• court does not abuse its discretion when it prevents unfair prejudice to defendant from admitting evidence that would inject a new claim late in the proceedings
• “Judicial estoppel is strong medicine, and this has led courts and commentators to characterize the grounds for its invocation in terms redolent of intentional wrongdoing.”
• “Judicial estoppel is strong medicine, and this has led courts and commentators to characterize the grounds for its invocation in terms redolent of intentional wrongdoing.”
• court does not abuse its discretion when it prevents unfair prejudice to defendant from admitting evidence that would inject a new claim late in the proceedings
• \The objective of the doctrine . . . is to prevent situations from arising in which one of two related decisions has to be wrong because a party took opposite positions and won both times.\

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