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KONSTANTINIDIS v. CHEN

No. 79-1313.

626 F.2d 933 (1980)

Athanasios KONSTANTINIDIS and Vasiliki Konstantinidis, his wife, Appellants, v. C. N. CHEN, M. D.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne M. Mansulla, Alexandria, Va., for appellants.

J. Joseph Barse, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before J. EDWARD LUMBARD, U. S. Senior Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, and TAMM and MIKVA, Circuit Judges.

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...

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