Levinson v. United States
Melvin E. LEVINSON v. UNITED STATES
Levinson v. United States, 113 S. Ct. 505 (1992)
Opinion of the Court
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Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Denied.
How later courts describe this case
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(“[T]he party to be [judicially], estopped must have convinced the first court to adopt its position; a litigant is not forever bound to a losing argument.”)
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(government’s position not inconsistent when government agreed not to seek fraud penalties in prior case while claiming fraud in current case because declining to seek penalty is not an admission that no fraud occurred)
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