Gail Michelman v. Lincoln National Life Insuranc

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the remedy of inter-pleader, which allows a stakeholder to join parties with claims that may expose him to multiple liability, “is designed so that stakeholders do not have to make legal predictions about the merits of claims”
• setting forth standard of review and stating that “[a] district court abuses its discretion only if the party requesting a continuance can show that allowing additional discovery would have precluded summary judgment”
• “Interpleader is appropriate where the .stakeholder reasonably fears that there may be multiple parties with colorable adverse claims to the stake.”
• “[I]nterpleader extends to potential, as well as actual, claims” (cleaned up)
• \[F]ormer Rule 56(f)... is substantively the same as current Rule 56(d).\

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