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Summary Judgment
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The Trademark Blog
EDNY: ‘Self-serving’ Testimony Not Sufficient For Summary Judgment
All defendants except remaining defendant settle with or are voluntarily dismissed by Nike. All testify that remaining defendant is the 'orchestrator of the counterfeit shoe importation.' "Defendant. . . has…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Coleman on Summary Judgment
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Prof. Brooke Coleman (Seattle) has posted on SSRN a draft of her forthcoming essay, Summary Judgment: What We Think We Know Versus What We Ought to Know, which will appear…
Tom Mighell
Blawg of the Day – Summary Judgments
By Tom Mighell
I haven't posted a blog from a law school lately, so I'm glad to mention Summary Judgments, from the faculty at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. The posts offer a…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
Determination of the validity of a policy termination may not be suitable for resolution by summary trial
Summary judgment application by the insurer on the basis that the action was untenable at law. The Court dismissed the motion finding that there was a tenable action, and that there…
Delaware Bankruptcy Update
Decision in Sierra Concrete Design, Inc. Provides a Thorough Explanation of the Principles Behind Bankruptcy’s Preference Laws
Summary In an opinion issued January 4, 2012, Judge Sontchi of the Delaware Bankruptcy Court provided an easy to follow primer in preference law in the course of granting in…
Employment Class Action Blog
California Court Affirms Summary Judgment Against Putative Class of Insurance Agents
By Greg Mersol
Court Finds That Insurance Agents Were Independent Contractors As A Matter Of Law As we have noted in prior blogs, litigation involving alleged independent contractor status is on the rise,…
Outside Inhouse Lawyer Blog
NY Appellate Division, 1st Dep’t, Discusses Summary Judgment Procedure
By Grace Healy
An Appellate Division, First Department, decision handed down yesterday, Ostrov v. Rozbruch, should be must reading for any lawyer involved in filing a complaint, supplying a bill of particulars, or…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Provides Instruction on When to Seek Discovery in Reply to Summary Judgment Motion
Wimbledon Fund LP – Absolute Return Fund Series v. SV Special Situations Fund LP, C.A. No. 4780-CS (Del. Ch., Dec. 22, 2011), read letter ruling here. Read summaries of prior Delaware decisions…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
The Vanishing Plaintiff
Legal scholars are becoming more aware that actual trials in federal courts have decreased dramatically since the 1960's. Suja Thomas discussed this trend in a recent speech at Seattle University…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Thomas on the Summary Judgment Trilogy
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Prof. Suja Thomas (Illinois) has posted on SSRN Before and After the Summary Judgment Trilogy, which is forthcoming in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. It was the keynote speech…