Jones v. Sheehan, Young & Culp, P.C.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that appeals court may affirm district court’s summary judgment decision on any legally sufficient ground
• stating court does not have jurisdiction over unserved party “unless it waived service or entered a general appearance”
• court has no “duty to survey the entire record in search of evidence to support a non-movant’s opposition.”
• “Rule 56 ... does not impose upon the district court a duty to survey the entire record in search of evidence to support a non-movant’s opposition.”
• in giving res judicata effect to a state court judgment, a federal court applies the res judicata principles of the state from which the judgment originated
• “In determining whether conduct is sufficient to be considered a general appearance, the focus is on affirmative action that impliedly recognizes the court’s jurisdiction over the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).