Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Bancorp Services, L.L.C.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that it is “the prevailing rule in all circuits” that “the parties must be afforded adequate time for general discovery before being required to respond to a motion for summary judgment”
• declining to consider claim construction issue that district court did not “expressly” address and remanding to district court for further proceedings
• declining to consider claim construction issue that dis- trict court did not “expressly” address and remanding to district court for further proceedings
• reversing district court refusal to grant Rule 56(d) motion when discovery sought was the principal opportunity to contradict statements in declarations that a district court treated as truthful and dispositive
• reversing district court refusal to grant Rule 56(d) motion when discovery sought was the principal opportunity to contradict statements in declarations that a district court treated as truthful and dispositive
• “The district court’s refusal to allow depositions cannot be defended on the ground that the Janssen and Lang declarations were credible, as the district court appeared to do.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).