SLATER v. U.S. STEEL CORP.

No. 12-15548.

820 F.3d 1193 (2016)

Sandra SLATER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. U.S. STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 24, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick Dale Graham , Graham & Associates, Birmingham, AL, Charles Clyde Tatum, Jr., Attorney at Law, Jasper, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant,

Anthony Francis Jeselnik , United States Steel Corporation Law Department, Pittsburgh, PA, William H. Morrow , Ivan B. Cooper , Lightfoot Franklin & White, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and SCOLA, District Judge.


The equitable doctrine of judicial estoppel, also known as the doctrine of preclusion of inconsistent positions, "precludes a party from asserting a ... position that contradicts or is inconsistent with a prior position taken by the same party." 18 James Wm. Moore et al., Moore's Federal Practice ¶ 131.13[6][a] (3d ed.2015). The doctrine...

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