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An increase in the Courts summary docket

Court watchers have noticed that the Supreme Court has issued an unusually large number of summary reversals this term. (A summary reversal is a case in which the Supreme Court grants a petition for ...
Reason

Where Did All the Summary Reversals Go?

The Supreme Court summarily reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Andrew v. White. Such summary reversals used to be somewhat commonplace. (Indeed, as I've chronicled on this ...
JD Supra

Court Reverses Summary Judgments On The Alleged Exercise Of A Power Of Appointment, Disclaimer, And The Statute Of Limitations

In In re Estate of Wells, No. 12-23-00066-CV, 2023 Tex. App. LEXIS 8475 (Tex. App.—Tyler November 8, 2023, no pet. history). The testator left a will that created a trust for his wife and descendants, ...
Yahoo

Ohio Supreme Court approves redistricting summary with only two small revisions

The Gavel outside the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, September 20, 2023, at 65 S. Front Street, Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal. Republish photo only with ...
JD Supra

Court Reversed Summary Judgment On Whether A Person Was The Current Trustee And On Certain Modification Claims But Affirmed Summary Judgment Rejecting Termination Of The Trust ...

In Crossley v. Crossley, a plaintiff, who was the beneficiary of, or had the power to designate the beneficiary, in two trusts established by his mother, and he filed suit requesting that the court ...
Law

Court Finds Summary Judgment Inappropriate for Adverse-Possession Case

"Although summary judgment is certainly not precluded in adverse-possession cases, adverse possession raises predominantly fact-intensive issues that generally must be resolved at trial," the decision ...