SUMMARYJUDGMENT

Summary judgment

In law, a summary judgment is a judgment entered by a court for one party and against another party summarily, i.e., without a full trial. Such a judgment may be issued on the merits of an entire case, or on discrete issues in that case. Today, summary judgment is governed by Federal Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, derived primarily from the three seminal cases concerning summary judgment out of the 1980s. See FRCP 56; Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322–27 (clarifying the shifting allocations of

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summary judgment

Noun

  1. The determination by a court that no factual issues are in dispute, and that the legal issues require the case to be decided in favor of one party or the other.


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