Mary C. Smith v. UHS of Lakeside, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “a trial court’s decision either to grant or deny a summary judgment” must be “adequately explained”
• holding that a trial court’s order should -7- be “the product of the trial court's independent judgment”
• noting that in addition to being a product of the trial court’s independent judgment, the trial court’s decision must be “adequately explained”
• noting that “reviewing courts have declined to accept findings, conclusions, or orders when the record provides no insight into the trial court’s decision-making process”
• noting that the appropriate remedy for the trial court’s failure to provide the rationale for its ruling was to remand to the trial court for reconsideration
• noting that “the trial court engaged in colloquy in which it could be inferred that the trial court was more amenable to one or another argument from either of the parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).