Archive for August 2013

Because judicial estoppel is concerned with protecting the integrity of the courts from the appearance and reality of manipulative litigation conduct, courts considering that doctrine have the “freedom to consider the equities of an entire case” and can even impose the estoppel where the party estopped and the party which committed the underlying conduct are not perfectly identical, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held

Service of process upon a person known to have been adjudicated incompetent to manage his affairs violates due process, a panel in the Appellate Court’s First District has held.