Total Petroleum, Inc. v. Gary J. Davis, D/B/A Gary J. Davis Oil Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the doctrine only applies to deliberate inconsistencies that are “tantamount to a knowing misrepresentation to or even fraud on the court.”
• “Equitable estoppel precludes a party from denying previously asserted facts if the injured party relies upon that information.”
• judicial estoppel does not require reliance or prejudice because it seeks to protect the courts
• describing collateral estoppel and judicial estoppel as “[t]wo related doctrines”
• “Equitable estoppel prevents a party from denying a state of facts that he has previously asserted to be true if the party to whom the representation was made has acted in reliance on the representation and will be prejudiced by its repudiation.”
• \Equitable estoppel prevents a party from denying a state of facts that he has previously asserted to be true if the party to whom the representation was made has acted in reliance on the representation and will be prejudiced by its repudiation.\

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