Jakobiec v. Merrill Lynch Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• noting it is odd that the parties did not provide the contract at issue in a breach of contract claim, “or at the very least stipulated to what it provides.”
• affirming summary judgment because plaintiffs failed to produce evidence concerning an essential element of their claim and “[t]he summary judgment stage is ‘the put up or shut up moment in litigation’”
• affirming summary judgment because plaintiffs failed to produce evidence concerning causation
• “A plaintiffs failure to produce any evidentiary proof concerning one of the essential elements of his claim is grounds for summary judgment.”
• “[T]he summary judgment stage is the put up or shut up moment in litigation.”
• “Faced with a defendant’s motion for summary judgment, a plaintiff must come forward with some evidence showing a genuine dispute of material fact if he wants to get in front of a jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).