Corrugated Paper Products, Inc. v. Longview Fibre Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “a court must be circumspect in granting summary judgment based solely on the defendant’s categorical denial that the requisite mental state existed”
• “[T]he opposing party may not merely recite the incantation, ‘Credibility,’ and have a trial on the hope that a jury may disbelieve factually uncontested proof.”
• “[T]he nonmovant ordinarily must identify specific factual inconsistencies in the witness’ testimony in order to withstand a motion for summary judgment.”
• “It is well-settled that summary judgment may be granted where the controlling issue is whether or not the movant acted with a particular mental state.”
• discussing New Jersey law and third-party beneficiary law in general
• “[W]here the defendant’s motive or state of mind is an essential element of a plaintiff’s case, a court must be circumspect in granting summary judgment based solely on the defendant’s categorical denial that the requisite mental state existed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).