Wakefield v. Circuit Court of Virginia

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• holding that the contractual jury trial waiver was valid but that the party seeking to enforce the waiver was estopped from doing so because the objecting party would be prejudiced by having wasted trial preparation in anticipation of a jury trial
• finding party estopped from invoking jury waiver provision after months of delay and when raising it six weeks before trial
• “Where a litigant has ... waived [the] right [to a jury trial] at some earlier time, a defendant’s disregard of the federal rules does not create that right out of thin air,”

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