Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nuclear Cardiology Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that parties who will be most discouraged from settling “will be those who fear future, related liability based on negative partial summary judgment orders”
• rejecting Golman’s holding, though not in the context of comparative fault, that partial summary judgments are not sufficiently “final” to give them preclusive effect
• rejecting Golman’s holding, though not in the context of comparative fault, that partial summary judgments are not sufficiently “final” to give them preclusive effect
• applying issue preclusion to partial summary judgment where issue was fully litigated but defendant chose to forego appeal by settling before final judgment was entered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).