summary judgment

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law

Synonym(s)

judgment on the pleadings, summary judgement

Usage(s):

  1. Resolving the plaintiffs' Equal Protection claims is a sine qua non to any opinion purporting to affirm the grant of summary judgment.
  2. That NIE was one of the worst compendiums of unsupported summary judgment statements I've ever seen.
  3. Wright was ruling in response to presidential attorney Bob Bennett's motion for summary judgment.
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