Trial by jury: why summary judgment is less likely in trade secret misappropriation cases

R. Mark Halligan of FisherBroyles LLP discusses an Oregon federal court opinion denying summary judgment in a trade secret ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)

MD Supreme Court reverses order vacating summary judgment on Anne Arundel parcel

Justice Steven B. Gould wrote the majority opinion in the 5-2 Supreme Court ruling. (The Daily Record/File Photo) An Anne Arundel County landowner was entitled to summary judgment on his claim of ...
JD Supra

Recent Appellate Court Ruling Serves As a RoadMap For Summary Judgment On Fact-Specific Disability Discrimination Cases

Seyfarth Synopsis: While motions for summary judgment are usually tricky to obtain in fact-laden employment cases alleging discrimination, failure to accommodate, and failure to engage in the ...
The Harvard Crimson

Ex-HBS Professor Says Harvard Rewrote, Then Ignored, Tenure Rules in Lawsuit

Former Harvard Business School associate professor Benjamin G. Edelman ’02 argued that Harvard rewrote and then ignored its ...

Update: A New Era for Summary Judgment Practice in Texas Courts

Among the critical changes, the amended rule revises the timing and sequence of briefing to a 21- and 7-day response/reply ...
Law

Summary Judgment Clears Discrimination and FTCA Claims

In Liberman v. Goldberg, 21 CV 5053 (EDNY, April 30, 2025), Judge Eric N. Vitaliano resolved a contentious dispute between an attorney and her former employer by granting summary judgment dismissing ...
IPWatchdog

CAFC Affirms Summary Judgment Ruling for Coca-Cola Based on Claim Language Describing Order of Steps

“The CAFC found that the claim language indicated ‘as a matter of logic or grammar’ that the steps ‘must be performed in the order written.’” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ...
The Harvard Crimson

Judge Denies Harvard’s Request for Summary Judgment on Therapy Notes Dispute in Comaroff Harassment Suit

A federal judge denied Harvard’s motion for summary judgment on one of the counts of a lawsuit filed last year by three Anthropology graduate students who alleged the University failed to properly ...
Healthcare Dive

New York judge denies UnitedHealth’s request for summary judgment in TeamHealth lawsuit

A district judge has declined UnitedHealth’s request for summary judgment in one of many ongoing lawsuits between the health insurance giant and subsidiaries of TeamHealth, a private equity-backed ...
JD Supra

Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment under Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act Granted

Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Plaintiff Frank P. Ragusa Jr. filed an asbestos-related lawsuit in Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans alleging he ...
Reuters

Merck shingles vaccine appeal will test controversial mass torts case management tool

Oct 18 (Reuters) - The federal trial judge overseeing a four-year-old multidistrict litigation over Merck’s Zostavax shingles vaccine decided in March 2022 that it was time for plaintiffs to put up or ...