Morrison v. Warden of United States Penitentiary

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 handful of legal proceedings does not amount to a “pattern” of baseless claims
• finding that 13 plaintiffs successfully alleged that a conspiracy to restrain trade had a central aim to 14 eliminate independent rice farmers
• providing the Court discretion to reconsider and/or modify interlocutory orders “at any time prior to final judgment”
• rejecting challenge to a decision, which contravened the previously-assigned judge’s earlier order
• re-versing a district court’s grant of judgment as a matter of law, because claim on which the jury reached a verdict did not collaterally estop the factual issues presented by a claim on which the jury had hung
• in the event of a mixed judgment, “it is within the discretion of a district court to require each party to bear its own costs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).