Sentences with phrase «only partial summary judgment»

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(Georgia filed only a partial motion for summary judgment because the most recent version of the code has yet to be registered.)

The franchise filed a motion for partial summary judgment, arguing that since it had already conceded the driver was acting in the course and scope of employment, the chain could only be held vicariously liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior.

Similarly, Cecil et al. found that defendants moving for summary judgment were awarded summary judgment in full 64 % of the time, whereas plaintiffs moving for summary judgment were awarded summary judgment in full only 39 % of the time.90 In a subsequent study of all federal district court summary judgment activity in 2006, Cecil and Cort found that moving parties succeeded more often (57 %) than non-moving parties (43 %), as was the case for moving parties in federal court in our sample (73 % to 27 %).91 Although success rates in our sample were higher than success rates in the Cecil study and the Cecil and Cort study, a higher success rate is expected given that we excluded motions seeking partial summary judgment from our sample.

Partial summary judgment ought only to be granted in the clearest of cases where the issue on which judgment is sought is clearly severable from the balance of the case.