Jackson v. Hancock & Canada, L.L.P.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the Jacksons had a motive to conceal their claims . . . as their failure to disclose the claims would prevent any future recovery from inuring to the benefit of their creditors”
• holding that “the Jacksons derived an unfair advantage by their failure to disclose their claims against H&C because, while the bankruptcy was pending, the Jacksons’ creditors were prevented from attempting to collect on their debts”
• affirming trial court’s grant of summary judgment on judicial estoppel defense
• use of federal law on judicial estoppel is appropriate to “promote the goal of uniformity and predictability in bankruptcy proceedings”
• “The omission of a known cause of action from the debtor’s mandatory bankruptcy filings is tantamount to a representation that no such claim existed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).