Seventh Circuit: Judicial Estoppel May Apply to a Litigant Based on the Litigation Positions of a Party in a Different Action | Practical Law
In Grochocinski v. Mayer Brown Row & Maw, LLP, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the district court's exercise of judicial estoppel was proper in a case in which a bankruptcy trustee's position in a malpractice suit was inconsistent with a different party's position in an earlier and separate suit.