Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Hedlund

How courts have described this case

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

• noting “judicial estoppel applies only when the position asserted by a party was material to the holding in the prior litigation”
• finding “judicial acceptance” only “when the position asserted by a party was material to the holding in the prior litigation”
• describing the critical role that admitting liability plays in an alternate medical care proceeding
• “The admission of liability by Tyson Foods played no role in the dismissal of the petition by the deputy commissioner. Consequently, judicial estoppel does not apply.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).