Bortell v. Eli Lilly and Co.

How courts have described this case

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• agreeing with the Seventh Circuit that Rule 56 governing summary judgment does not have a cross examination requirement
• declining to admit affidavits under Rule 807 where the proponent of the evidence knew two witnesses who became unavailable were elderly, but failed \to preserve their testimony for trial\
• declining to admit affidavits under Rule 807 where the proponent of the evidence knew two witnesses who became unavailable were elderly, but failed “to preserve their testimony for trial”
• “[I]t is well-settled that only admissible evidence may be considered by the trial court in ruling on a motion for summary judgment[.]”

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