«Who knew the court would actually want
a brief on the summary judgment motion?»
Not exact matches
Hypothesis 2: When the moving party's
brief is more readable than the non-moving party's
brief, the moving party will be more likely to prevail
on a
motion for
summary judgment.
Hypothesis 1: Increased
brief readability will lead to a greater likelihood that a party will prevail
on a
motion for
summary judgment.
2001): Implemented a strategy to place plaintiff in a catch - 22 with a successful claim construction
motion to ensure a loss either
on infringement or validity that was followed up with successful
summary judgment motion for invalidity; authored appeal
brief to obtain affirmance by CAFC.
Moving from cases where the moving party's
brief is significantly less readable than the non-moving party's
brief to the opposite situations, the likelihood that the moving party prevails
on the
motion for
summary judgment more than doubles from 42 % to 85 %.
First, we saw a statistically significant correlation between
brief readability and the likelihood of success
on a
summary judgment motion.
The difference in the predicted probability of success
on a
motion for
summary judgment based
on a
brief's readability score is much less stark in our state court sample than in our federal court sample.
Students will be assessed
on the basis of two writing assignments, a Markman / claim construction
brief and a
summary judgment motion, and
on an oral argument
on their
brief.