Malone v. Alabama

How courts have described this case

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

• holding district court’s consideration of untimely motion for attorney’s fees was not an abuse of discretion as “application of local rules is a matter peculiarly within the district court’s province”
• finding that district court did not violated the Due Process Clause by deciding case without a hearing because “when there is no material factual dispute, there is no hearing requirement”
• finding where a non-moving party’s entitlement to judgment turned on the same issue as a moving party’s entitlement to judgment, and judgment was awarded to the moving party, the district court’s sua sponte entry of summary judgment in favor of the non-moving party was proper
• “The application of local rules is a matter peculiarly within the district court’s province.”
• because, the plaintiff’s right to summary judgment and the cross-defendants right to summary judgment turned on the same issue, “the district court had no reason to delay the entry of judgment for the [cross-defendants].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).