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Sample Data Record

Court Name:      Daily Brief - 10th Circuit
Filing Date:     July 6, 2007
Plaintiffs:      Eastman
Defendants:      Union Pacific Railroad
Category Type:   CIVIL
Category 1:      BANKRUPTCY
Category 2:      TORT
Category 3:      CIVIL PROCEDURE
Summary:

The lower court estopped plaintiff^s personal injury action against 
his employer over a car accident because of his failure to disclose 
the action to the bankruptcy court that heard and granted his 
Chapter 7 petition as a ^no asset^ bankruptcy. One year later, the 
bankruptcy court learned of the tort action, reopened the bankruptcy 
case and employed judicial estoppel to dismissed the suit. Plaintiff 
claimed ignorance, but J. Baldock finds it impossible that plaintiff 
overlooked the fact that he had been seriously injured in an auto 
accident and sued his employer and eight other co-defendants for 
thousands of dollars, and his "clearly inconsistent" positions in 
bankruptcy and trial courts give the impression that he misled the 
bankruptcy court. Affirmed.