Southmark Corp. v. Trotter, Smith & Jacobs

How courts have described this case

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• noting that judicial estoppel doctrine is more concerned with protecting integrity of judicial process than protecting individual litigants
• applying federal bankruptcy law to judicial estoppel claim in legal malpractice suit filed in Georgia when previous bankruptcy was decided in Texas
• where there was no reference to any claim against defendants, no later assertion of those claims would be allowed
• judicial estoppel barred plaintiff’s claims where plaintiff failed to disclose its claims in its amended schedules
• judicial estoppel applied where plaintiff did include omitted claims in several amendments
• purpose of judicial estoppel is to prevent “intentional self-contradiction”

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