Burns v. Delta Airlines, Inc.

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How courts have described this case

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• stating that conclusory statements are not enough to create a genuine issue of material fact under MCR 2.116(C)(7)
• explaining that it “is not enough to create a genuine issue of material fact to provide conclusory statements that a duty was breached.”
• explaining that it “is not enough to create a genuine issue of material fact to provide conclusory statements that a duty was breached.”
• noting that conclusory statements without factual support or detail cannot create a factual issue
• discussing the clean hands doctrine which forecloses relief “to one tainted with inequitableness or bad faith relative to the matter in which he seeks relief, however improper may have been the behavior of the defendant”
• noting that an agreement that expressly provided to sell an island “at absolute auction with no minimums or reserves . . . to the highest bidder(s) regardless of the bid price” and precluded the seller from establishing a reserve on bidding was an “absolute auction with no reserve”

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