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Procedural: Judicial Estoppel

     City which disciplined officer for injuring his spouse could not claim, in later federal civil rights suit brought by her against the city, that her wounds had been self-inflicted; city was barred from taking contradictory positions by the doctrine of "judicial estoppel" Czajkowski v. City of Chicago, 810 F.Supp. 1428 (N.D.Ill. 1992), reconsideration denied, (1993).
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