Coach, Inc. v. Kmart Corporations

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that bare allegation of waiver prevented court from finding a “question of fact or law that might allow a waiver defense to succeed” and was thus “insufficient as a matter of law”
• concluding that a bare allegation of waiver prevented the court from finding a “question of fact or law that might allow a waiver defense to succeed” and was thus “insufficient as a matter of law”
• discussing requirement that movant shows that the objectionable material would result in prejudice, such as \[i]ncreased time and expense of trial\
• granting a motion to strike a defense that would “increase the duration and expense of trial”
• striking affirmative defense that “fail[ed] as a matter of law” given that its inclusion would “needlessly increase the duration and expense of litigation”
• striking estoppel defense where there was “no indication that the Defendants relied, to their detriment or otherwise, on any conduct by the Plaintiffs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).