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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Summary Judgment: New Tennessee Supreme Court Case

The Tennessee Supreme Court issued its opinion in Stanfill v. Mountain, M2006-01072-SC-R11-CV (Tenn. Dec. 3, 2009). The opinion offers a good discussion of our state's recently clarified summary judgment standard, which is discussed in my November 8 and 15, 2008 posts to this blog.

Here's a link to the opinion:

http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/OPINIONS/TSC/PDF/094/SC%20Robin%20Lee%20Stanfill%20et%20al%20v%20John%20T%20Mountain%20et%20al%20OPN.pdf

Chief Justice Holder wrote a separate opinion, which concurs in part and dissents in part with the majority opinion, to wit:

http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/OPINIONS/TSC/PDF/094/SC%20Robin%20Lee%20Stanfill%20et%20al%20v%20John%20T%20Mountain%20et%20al%20DIS.pdf

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