Legal Opinion
Fulton County v. Ward-Poag
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 5, 2020No. S19G1619PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
310 Ga. 289
FINAL COPY S19G1619. FULTON COUNTY v. WARD-POAG. PETERSON, Justice. In this case, summary judgment was awarded to Fulton County on Sandra Ward-Poag’s civil whistleblower claims on the ground of judicial estoppel. In particular, the superior court concluded that judicial estoppel barred Ward-Poag’s claims because she took an inconsistent position regarding the nature of those claims when she failed to disclose her claims in her bankruptcy case, and then amended her bankruptcy petition to value her claims against the County as worth far less than alleged here. The Court of Appeals…
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