Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Cassidy v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

111 S. Ct. 48

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1990-10-01
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • "Judicial estoppel is a doctrine intended to prevent the perversion of the judicial process.”
  • defendant who is allowed, at his own urging, to raise issue for the first time on earlier appeal is judicially estopped from challenging its determination, even though collateral estoppel was incorrectly applied to earlier resolution

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Denied.