Ligon v. Middletown Area School District

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that judicial estoppel “appl[ies] with equal if not greater force when a party switches positions within the same action”
• plaintiff barred by judicial estoppel from asserting that defendant with whom he had entered into settlement at trial was immune from suit
• “Judicial estoppel has been applied to prevent a party from changing his or her position regarding jurisdiction because it suited that party’s interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).