Organic Seed Growers and Trade v. Monsanto Company

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that pat-entee’s “representations unequivocally disclaiming] any intent to sue appellant” were “binding as a matter of judicial estop-pel”
• finding that a party’s “representations unequivocally disclaiming] any intent to sue appellants]” were, as a matter of judicial estoppel, sufficient to bind the representing party (emphasis added)
• finding that a party’s “representations unequivocally disclaim[ing] any intent to sue appellant[s]” were, as a matter of judicial estoppel, sufficient to bind the representing party (emphasis add- ed)
• finding that a party’s “representations unequivocally disclaim[ing] any intent to sue appellant[s]” were, as a matter of judicial estoppel, sufficient to bind the representing party (emphasis add- ed)
• equating a party’s repre- sentations to a covenant not to sue and mooting the action, despite the party not reducing the statements to writing
• equating a party’s representations to a covenant not to sue and mooting the action, despite the party not reducing the statements to writing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).