White v. Goth

How courts have described this case

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

• the doctrine serves to protect the sanctity of the oath and prevent inconsistent results in separate proceedings
• “The doctrine [of judicial estoppel] has a twofold purpose: to pre- serve the sanctity of the oath and to protect the integrity of the judicial system by preventing inconsistent results in separate proceedings.”
• plaintiffs did not benefit from their position in a previous lawsuit, in the form of a $50,000 payment made by defendant, in part because defendant “agreed to make that payment before the first action was filed, not in response to that action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).