Chrysler Avoids Suit Worker Failed to Report in Bankruptcy Case

A Family and Medical Leave Act suit against FCA US LLC was dismissed by the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday because the worker who filed the legal action didn’t acknowledge it on his bankruptcy petition.

Applying the doctrine of judicial estoppel, which prevents a party from making a claim in one suit that is contrary to a claim in another, Judge David W. McKeague of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said that Stephen Stanley benefited from the omission, and the omission wasn’t inadvertent.

Stanley’s union had filed an FMLA grievance with FCA on his behalf when he ...