Jackson v. Federal Express

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that when party has ample time to pursue discovery that it now claims is essential, district court has broad discretion to deny further discovery
• holding that a court may deem a claim to be abandoned where the party fails to mention the claim in opposition to a summary judgment motion
• holding that “a partial response arguing that summary judgment should be denied as to some claims while not mentioning others may be deemed an abandonment of the unmentioned claims”
• holding that “a court may, when appropriate, infer from a party’s partial opposition [to summary judgment] that relevant claims . . . that are not defended have been abandoned”
• holding that a counseled party who partially opposed a motion for summary judgment had abandoned those claims it did not specifically oppose because \the papers and circumstances viewed as a whole\ indicate \that abandonment was intended\
• holding that “in the case of a counseled party, a court may, when appropriate, infer from a party’s partial opposition that relevant claims or defenses that are not defended have been abandoned”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).