Legal Opinion
Wakefield v. SWS Securities, Inc. (In Re Wakefield)
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided May 27, 2003No. 3:03-cv-00074PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FITZWATER, District Judge.
The bankruptcy court awarded plaintiff-appellee Daniel Alan Wakefield (“Wake-field”) damages under 11 U.S.C. § 525(b) and Texas libel law after finding that defendant-appellant Southwest Securities, Inc. (“SWS”) had terminated his employment solely because he had filed for bankruptcy and had given false reasons in a Form U-5 for discharging him. The bankruptcy court rejected SWS’s reliance on the defense of judicial éstoppel to bar Wakefield’s § 525(b) cause of action. It applied a purely objective standard to find that, when Wakefield failed to amend the schedules…
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