Federal Deposit Insurance v. Collins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that courts should focus on the alleged wrongdoers’ actions, not the actions taken by the FDIC
• disagreeing with the reasoning in Haines and holding that the affirmative defenses of failure to mitigate damages and contributory negligence were legally insufficient and ordering them stricken
• “Where the defense is insufficient as a matter of law, the defense should be stricken to eliminate the day and unnecessary expense of litigating it at trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).