estopped

No matter how glibly presented, however, an “evolved” legal position may be estopped.

“And he’d be all, ‘Well, we were playeeng un concierto een the palacio weeth Esteban and Julio, and then we estopped when thee pretty lady came een.’”

So might they be metaphorically and morally “estopped” from their wrong-headed resurrection of Scalia’s theory of extreme executive power?

Or there's the requirement that he be neutral, meaning that he is estopped from taking sides when issues of racial conflict arise.

After the film companies pushed for dismissal on this basis, the plaintiffs argued that the film companies should be equitable estopped from seeking dismissal because a failure to register was due solely to the other side’s refusal to provide a copy to them to deposit with the Copyright Office.