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• holding that judicial estoppel is not appropriate where “the initial claim was never accepted or adopted by a court or agency”
• holding that judicial estoppel is not appropriate where “the initial claim was never accepted or adopted by a court or -57- agency”
• holding that “a party has not displayed bad faith for judicial estoppel purposes if the initial claim was never accepted or adopted by a court or agency”
• concluding that “judicial estoppel is unwarranted unless the party changed his or her position ‘in bad faith — i.e., with intent to play fast and loose with the court.’ ”
• concluding remedy was not tailored where non-party plan participants, not plaintiff hospital and savings plan, were harmed when district court invoked judicial estoppel to dismiss case
• concluding remedy was not tailored where non-party plan participants, not plaintiff hospital and savings plan, were harmed when district court invoked judicial estoppel to dismiss case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).