The central message of the Court of Appeal's decision is that the summary
judgment motions court can not dispense with a trial unless it is «in the interests of justice» to do so: ``... the aim of the civil justice system is to provide a just result in disputed matters through a fair process.»
Not exact matches
On July 8, the public got its first view into how the U.S. Department of Labor will defend its fiduciary rule when it filed a cross
motion for summary
judgment, asking the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a law suit brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.
«Because there is no genuine dispute of material fact that Sulyma had actual knowledge of the facts comprising claims I and III, as well as knowledge of the disclosures he alleges were unlawfully inadequate in claims II and IV, the
Court grants defendants»
motion for summary
judgment on those claims, finding them time - barred,» Cousins wrote in his opinion.
MSU probably files a
motion for summary
judgment, asking the
Court to declare them the winner without trial.
The
motion brought before the
court by Sheriff, requesting it to disqualify the other faction from appealing the judgment of the Appeal Court was heard and argued, but the court asked the counsels to submit written arguments before the next date of hea
court by Sheriff, requesting it to disqualify the other faction from appealing the
judgment of the Appeal
Court was heard and argued, but the court asked the counsels to submit written arguments before the next date of hea
Court was heard and argued, but the
court asked the counsels to submit written arguments before the next date of hea
court asked the counsels to submit written arguments before the next date of hearing.
At the time plaintiff filed the
motion for default
judgment in default of defence, the defendants had not been served with any Statement of Claim as required under the Rules of
Court in support of the amended Writ of Summons to which they could respond by way of a statement of defence.
In one case, Denenberg allegedly prepared a «fake order» in which the
court granted his client a
motion for summary
judgment, dismissing a claim against it with prejudice, the suit said.
Botwin said the town will soon file a
motion in State Supreme
Court for summary
judgment after discovering charges for ineligible FIT students.
But the defense team could not sustain that
judgment, as EOCO filed an ex-parte
motion the following day, April 24, 2018, and obtained another order from the same
court for the accounts to be frozen again.
When reminded that Kashamu had appealed to the Supreme
Court against the
judgment of the
Court of Appeal, the source said, «It will not stop the extradition proceedings once everything needed to set it in
motion is ready».
He said that notwithstanding that «the
motion for stay of execution of the
judgment of the Honourable Justice Nnamdi Dimgba (of the Federal High
Court in Abuja) delivered last week in the case of Senator Ovie Omo - Agege v The Senate has not been heard and determined by the Federal High
Court, the Senate resolved yesterday to comply with the terms of the
judgment».
Jolted by the action, the EFCC returned to the
court through a
motion asking for the stay of execution of the
judgment.
Justice lawyers also filed their own 54 - page
motion for summary
judgment asking the
court to rule in their favor.
After an appeals
court temporarily lifted the freeze, the plaintiffs, two researchers who study adult stem cells, filed a «
motion for summary
judgment» with Lamberth.
On December 6, 2016, Treasurer Dan Schwartz
motions the Eighth Judicial District
Court to change its final
judgment in Lopez v. Schwartz, which declared SB 302, the ESA voucher bill, unconstitutional in its entirety.
Here's a closer look at the
court's ruling on the district's and individual defendants»
motion for summary
judgment for Ms. I's claims.
(d) Intentional infliction of emotional distress The
court granted the district's
motion but denied the individual defendants»
motion for summary
judgment for this claim because of the boundaries of the state's governmental immunity legislation.
(c) Violation of 14th Amendment procedural due process The
court granted the defendants»
motion for summary
judgment for this claim, finding that Ms. I did not meet the applicable precedent, which requires at the threshold an allegation that the reason for the forced discharge was to avoid a pre-termination hearing.
The district will immediately go to
court to affirm the SRC's action, filing a
motion for declaratory
judgment with the Pennsylvania Department of Education as co-plaintiff.
Defendants have claimed that they are going to file a
motion for summary
judgment right about... now - ish in
court terms.
Lots of things have happened, like we moved to federal
court, and then there was discovery (but maybe not all of it), and
motions for summary
judgment.
A
motion to vacate is essentially an appeal of the
judgment entered by the
court.
As an existing
judgment reaches its expiration date, the person or business owed may renew the
judgment by filing a
motion with the
court.
After expedited discovery, the
court granted the issuer's
motion for summary
judgment in all respects, permitting the bond issuance to proceed.
Although
judgment liens that impair an exemption can usually be avoided (removed) by
motion in a bankruptcy case,
Courts are split as to whether a deficiency
judgment that results in a lien on real estate can be removed through bankruptcy.
Judgment is entered in favor of Defendants Microsoft Corporation, Electronic Arts Inc., Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., Majesco Entertainment Co., Ubisoft Inc., and Nintendo of America Inc.'s (collectively «Defendants») on Plaintiff Richard J. Baker's («Baker») claims for infringement pursuant to the
Court's ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS»
MOTION FOR SUMMARY
JUDGMENT (D.I. 135) dated January 3, 2017 and filed on January 4, 2017.
With no billable hours to measure, no depositions to observe, no summary
judgment motion results to track, and no trial results to either celebrate or anguish over (and I know, the better lawyer often loses in
court), pretty much all the evaluations are «soft» ones.
Sienkowski's
motion to vacate the
judgment and for a new trial based on this information was denied, leading to an appeal to the
Court of Appeals of Indiana.
The
motion alleges that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and asks the U.S. District
Court in Atlanta to enter a
judgment declaring that Casemaker has no -LSB-...]
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr., ruling on Fastcase's
motion for summary
judgment, denied the
motion and dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice, meaning that Fastcase is not barred from refiling the lawsuit in another
court.
On January 23, 2014, the Supreme
Court of Canada released its decision in the case of Hryniak v. Mauldin, in which it signaled a fundamental shift in the way that summary
judgment motions are to be handled in the Province of Ontario.
A
motion filed jointly on Friday by the Barreau du Québec and the Montreal Bar, asking the Superior
Court of Quebec to issue a declaratory
judgment that all of the province's laws, regulations and decrees are illegal because they were drafted and adopted in French only, has stunned politicians, lawyers and legal pundits the province.
The district
court granted FedEx's summary
judgment motion.
The lower
court granted the summary
judgment motion.
In considering a
motion to set to aside default
judgment, the
Court must consider the following factors: (1) whether the
motion to set aside the default
judgment was brought without delay after the moving party learned of the default
judgment; (2) whether the circumstances giving rise to the default
judgment have been adequately explained; and (3) whether the moving party has an... Read More
Lightfoot appealed both the new trial order and the trial
court's denial of its
motions for
judgment as a matter of law.
Post-trial
motion work to ensure relevant issues and documents are included in the official record of the trial
court, including
motions for new trial and
motion for
judgment notwithstanding the verdict
After a series of lower
court decisions resulted in conflicting conclusions, the Appeals Court vacated a Superior Court judgment allowing the defendant's motion for summary judgment, concluding that the plaintiff was entitled to the benefit of the three - year limitation period of G.L. c. 84,
court decisions resulted in conflicting conclusions, the Appeals
Court vacated a Superior Court judgment allowing the defendant's motion for summary judgment, concluding that the plaintiff was entitled to the benefit of the three - year limitation period of G.L. c. 84,
Court vacated a Superior
Court judgment allowing the defendant's motion for summary judgment, concluding that the plaintiff was entitled to the benefit of the three - year limitation period of G.L. c. 84,
Court judgment allowing the defendant's
motion for summary
judgment, concluding that the plaintiff was entitled to the benefit of the three - year limitation period of G.L. c. 84, § 15.
In addition, the
Court confirmed that a bonus entitlement claim can be decided on a summary
judgment motion.
The Superior
Court allowed defendant's
motion to dismiss on the claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress and fraud, and later allowed defendant's
motion for summary
judgment on the claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress and battery.
The Ontario Superior
Court of Justice in Busseri v. Doe, 2014 ONSC 819, dealt with the defendant's
motion to set aside default
judgment against him in an internet defamation case.
In this role Carrie also coordinates and drafts summary
judgment motions and
motions in limine in state and federal
court in multiple jurisdictions, and develops and prepares the trial and deposition testimony of expert witnesses and corporate representatives.
The Divisional
Court found the
Motion Judge was correct in dealing with the matter by way of summary
judgment because the facts were not in dispute.
The Superior
Court allowed defendants»
motion for summary
judgment concluding that they owed no duty of care to Robert, an intoxicated party guest who injured himself, and that a claim for negligent misrepresentation is one that arises only in a business context, not a social setting.
[4] In the reasons for
judgment of the
Court of Appeal, Justice Hourigan agreed with the
motions judge that the «occurrence» causing property damage in this case was the scratching of the windows caused by the contractor's employees and not the presence of airborne cement debris.
The Supreme
Court of Canada recently clarified how
motion judges should exercise their fact - finding and summary
judgment powers under rule 20.04 (2.1) and (2.2) of the Rules of Civil Procedure.
After filing the second case, the family asked the
court to grant a
motion for partial summary
judgment against State Farm.
Another example is a
motion for summary
judgment, which asks the
court to rule in the requester's favor because essential facts are no longer in dispute (perhaps because of what has been learned in discovery), making a jury's decision unnecessary on some — or all — points.
The Manitoba
Court of Appeal has held that a defendants»
motion for summary
judgment should be dismissed, rejecting their argument that claims for pure economic loss for patent defects that are not imminently dangerous should not proceed to trial.
Through post-verdict
motions, the Appellate Practice Group convinced the
court that the releases were suspect, resulting in reduction of the
judgment by $ 20 million instead of the $ 4 million reduction sought by the plaintiffs.