Legal Opinion
Athanasios Konstantinidis and Vasiliki Konstantinidis, His Wife v. C. N. Chen, M. D
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 21, 1980No. 79-1313PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge TAMM.
TAMM, Circuit Judge:
This controversy concerns the “judicial estoppel” doctrine and its viability in the District of Columbia. After receiving a workmen’s compensation settlement for damages that he had alleged resulted solely from a work-related accident, plaintiff Athanasios Konstantinidis sued defendant Cheng Nan Chen, a medical doctor, for essentially the same damages on a claim of medical malpractice. 1 Relying on the doctrine of judicial estoppel, the district court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff’s prior…
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