Walker v. Hawxhurst

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Kevin Rodriguez was judicially estopped from claiming Virgin Islands residency to qualify as a candidate for the Virgin Islands Legislature when he previously represented himself to be a Tennessee resident in a M.D. Tenn. Bankruptcy Court proceeding
• noting that judicial decisions recognizing a common law doctrine were “of little utility” where those courts had “generally not analyzed the factors to be considered when applying the doctrine” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• overruling the Superior Court and Virgin Islands Board of Elections, and enjoining BOE from certifying an election where an elected Senate candidate did not meet the Virgin Islands’ residency requirement
• “[T]he integrity of. . . judicial comity is more important than any single case[.]”
• conducting a Banks analysis on judicial estoppel
• conducting a Banks analysis on judicial estoppel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).