In a unanimous opinion, the Tennessee Supreme Court has determined that the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure require trial judges to explain why they are granting or denying a motion for summary ...

"ShipEx was simply wrong to assert that the court could grant summary judgment without prejudice based on an application of the factors in rule 41(b), and it led the court to adopt this error," said ...

The Supreme Court of Texas approved amendments to Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 166a, modifying Texas’s summary judgment procedure in several important ways. After public comments on the proposed ...

The obvious preference for the average person is never to be involved in litigation. For those forced to become party to a lawsuit, however, the dream then becomes prevailing on a motion for summary ...