Judge Janet Bond Arterton, who wrote the district court opinion, cavalierly dispensed with a trial on the facts, issuing instead a summary judgment.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White denied a motion by CBS for a summary judgment, which would have ended the lawsuit.
Last April, a judge ruled that the suit needed to go to trial by jury and denied Gonzalez's request for a summary judgment.
Rivera came to an end yesterday when a federal judge in Mississippi granted the Securities and Exchange Commission a summary judgment against Rivera, barring him forever from the penny-stock business.
If it's just a partial summary judgment on one certain legal theory, we go forward with the jury trial on the rest of them.
It is also possible that these claims could be dismissed at a Motion for Summary Judgment stage after a court has a chance to review all of the evidence.
Given that a favorable ruling on a Motion for Summary Judgment has the result of denying the losing party a full day in court, the burden of carrying this request is high and, understandably, the remedy should be granted only after careful consideration.
The Government filed a motion for summary judgment and was granted summary judgment as to the deficiency.
Subsequent to the close of discovery on September 11, 2012, CAIR filed a motion for summary judgment to have the case dismissed.
But the employer cannot get the case dismissed on a motion for summary judgment because its reason for terminating the employee has been called into doubt.
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The government defendants also filed a motion for summary judgment arguing that whatever aid was provided to AIG's Shariah businesses, it was both unintended and de minimus.
As a result, Yerushalmi and AFLC filed an opposition, which the Court has treated as a cross-motion for summary judgment on the key liability issues, a rarity in cases like this.
Those decisions require plaintiffs to do more than dredge up news articles and SEC filings to craft a complaint that will survive summary judgment.
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This is a tough one to refute at the summary-judgment stage, and an easy out for the judge.
The IRS moved for summary judgment, throwing Mr. Wall a bone that penalties should not be imposed if his deductions were disallowed as a matter of law.
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Bring a frivolous lawyer-driven claim, get past summary judgment, settle.
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Such as: delivering summary judgment declaring Chanin got the disease from a Propofol injection even though that was a core contested fact in the case.
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U.S. District Henry Hudson, in a 42-page opinion, granted the state of Virginia summary judgment in its suit seeking to declare the insurance mandate unconstitutional, thus threatening the entire package of insurance reforms in the 2, 700-page law.
The plaintiffs survived a motion to dismiss last December in a Western District of Texas federal court, and each party has now filed motions for summary judgment.
In 2009 Judge Miller threw out ERISA claims in the case and granted El Paso summary judgment on the ADEA claim, finding it was barred by the failure of the plaintiffs to file a timely charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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