Nobody would confuse this morning's Supreme Court decision in Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction with a big case. In yesterday's roundup of the 22 cases left on the docket, I ranked it dead last in importance. The opinion was unanimous, and given to the junior justice, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, to write. The Court was asked to decide "whether the doctrine of judicial estoppel can be invoked to bar a plaintiff who fails to disclose a civil claim in bankruptcy filings from pursuing that claim simply because there is a potential motive for nondisclosure, regardless of whether there is evidence that
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