Topic
Summary Judgment
732 published works
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
It’s Doctor v. Lawyer in a Second Summary Judgment
To what extent did defendant attorneys participate in the negotiation and advice given to a doctor who had a condo along with a professional suite, and then rented the suite? …
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
A Thoughtful Primer on Evidence and Summary Judgment
It's medical malpractice which is something we don't usually write about, but Justice Schlesinger's opinion in this medical malpractice summary judgment opinion is well worth reading. Balzola v Giese 2013…
Chicago IP Litigation
Akamai Reverses (Another) Summary Judgment Decision
CIVIX-DDI, LLC v. Hotels.com, No. 05 C 6869, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Nov. 1, 2012) (St. Eve, J.). Judge St. Eve granted plaintiff CIVIX-DDI’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b) motion…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Meier on Summary Judgment (Again!)
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Professor Luke Meier has recently posted to SSRN his paper “Probability, Confidence, and Matsushita: The Misunderstood Summary Judgment Revolution.”The paper can be found here:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2205901The paper argues that Matsushita has been…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
Multi peril insurance policies are not subject to the statutory limitation period for fire insurance policies
Application for summary judgment by the defendant insurance company primarily on a limitations issue. The application was dismissed. Boyce v. Co-Operators General Insurance Co., [2012] O.J. No. 5288, November 13, 2012,…
Chicago IP Litigation
Court Grants Summary Judgment Based Upon No Likelihood of Confusion
Hearthware, Inc. v. E. Mishan & Sons, Inc., No. 11 C 5233, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Aug. 10, 2012) (Nolan, J.). Judge Nolan granted defendant E. Mishan & Sons (“EMS”)…
Employment Class Action Blog
Maryland Court Grants Summary Judgment In Unpaid Leave Policy Case
By Greg Mersol
What do you do if you if you want to cash in on the recent flood of wage and hour class and collective actions, but the employer’s policies are actually…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Trip and Fall Legal Malpractice and Summary Judgment
Both the underlying case and the legal malpractice case were resolved by summary judgment, except that the Appellate Division reversed dismissal of the legal malpractice case, and determined that the…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Meier on Summary Judgment
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Luke Meier has posted Probability, Confidence, and the Constitutionality of Summary Judgment to SSRN.Abstract: Professor Suja Thomas has famously asserted that summary judgment violates the Seventh Amendment guarantee of a…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Meier on the Constitutionality of Summary Judgment
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Prof. Luke Meier (Baylor) has posted on SSRN a draft of hisarticle, Probability, Confidence, and theConstitutionality of Summary Judgment. Here’s the abstract: Professor Suja Thomas has famously asserted that summaryjudgment…