Wade, Courtney v. United Paecel Service, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that attorney’s statements that “dealt with opinions and legal conclusions” about a party’s negligence and causation were not “binding judicial admissions”
• recognizing that counsel’s statement regarding “whether [the driver] was negligent and whether he caused the accident” “dealt with legal conclusions”
• recognizing that an attorney’s statement qualifies as a binding judicial admission when it is “deliberate, clear, and unambiguous”
• recognizing that an attorney’s statement qualifies as a binding judicial admission when it is “deliberate, clear, and unambiguous”
• holding that counsel’s statement on an issue of negligence was not a judicial admission because it consti- tuted a legal opinion or conclusion rather than a matter of fact
• declaring that “[i]n order to qualify as judicial admissions, an attorney’s statements must be deliberate, clear, and unambiguous” and must constitute a deliberate voluntary waiver.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).