Litigation
Dec. 14, 2006
Losing Summary Judgments
FOCUS COLUMN - By Margaret Grignon and Zareh Jaltorossian - When a trial court denies a motion for summary judgment, absent a settlement it generally means the case will go to trial in short order.
By Margaret Grignon and Zareh Jaltorossian
When a trial court denies a motion for summary judgment, absent a settlement it generally means the case will go to trial in short order. An order denying summary judgment is immediately challengeable by a petition for extraordinary writ, but the appellate courts rarely grant such petitions. For this reason, litigants often forgo the time and expense of filing a writ peti...
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