Asking for "Sealed" Summary Judgements Guess they Discovered things they don't want others to know and prefer to settle quietly and confidentially? Moreover, Attorneys representing the Paterno Critique of the Freeh Report and Paterno Estate asked for and were given permission to withdraw as Counsel, guess they figure not much of case.
Summary judgment is common element of litigation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For many lawsuits, summary judgment is as far as they get. For those that do make it through, the process is sometimes more time consuming than trial itself.
Summary judgment is when the court decides a case without having an actual trial first. The court looks at all of the evidence that has been collected and decides whether a trial is necessary. If it’s not, the court will issue a summary judgment, deciding that one party wins, and the other loses.
Summary judgment is also about whether trial is necessary or not. After all of the evidence is collected, one party argues that there doesn’t need to be a trial, and the other party argues the opposite.
Trial are about facts. It’s where the parties present their evidence and call their witnesses to prove to the jury or the judge that their version of the facts is true.
If there is a factual dispute or disagreement about what actually happened, then a trial may be required. Summary judgment is about the law. It’s where the parties agree upon a single version of the facts and argue about how the law affects their case. If there is a legal dispute or a disagreement over what the law means or how it should apply, and if the answer to that dispute means that one party might lose their case, summary judgment might be appropriate.
Sealed Settlement expected and both parties agree. Now almost all other Civil Lawsuits will follow and the entire Penn State Scandal is over except for Spanier and Sandusky Appeals Rulings.
Onward State:
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The Paterno estate’s lawsuit against the NCAA may be resolved without going to trial. In an order dated June 9, specially-presiding Senior Judge John Leete of Potter County granted a joint request by the Paternos and the NCAA to file under seal motions for summary judgment and response and reply briefs. Attorneys for both parties filed a joint motion on June 7 asking the court to file under seal “forthcoming dispositive motions” — meaning they would ask the court to decide the case — as well as supporting, responsive and reply briefs for those motions.
“The parties anticipate that the motions, responses, replies and supporting briefs will contain portions that have been designated ‘Confidential’ or ‘Highly Confidential'” under a protective order issued by Leete in 2014, Paterno attorney Thomas Weber and NCAA attorney Thomas Scott wrote.
They will file redacted public versions at the same time as the sealed documents. Along with granting the joint motion, Leet ordered an amended schedule. Dispositive motions and supporting briefs will be filed by June 30, responsive briefs by Aug. 7 and reply briefs by Aug. 28..................The Paterno estate, along with former assistant coaches Jay Paterno and Bill Kenney, are suing the NCAA, its president Mark Emmert and former executive committee chair Ed Ray in Centre County Court.
The lawsuit, filed in 2013, claims commercial disparagement, defamation, tortious interference and conspiracy, citing the use of the Louis Freeh report commissioned by Penn State in the NCAA’s consent decree for sanctions with Penn State related to the school’s handling of reports of child sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky. The consent decree was replaced and most sanctions repealed or ended early. The plaintiffs say the report and sanctions resulted in damage to commercial interests and values and harmed the former assistant coaches’ ability to find similar work.
LINK:
https://onwardstate.com/2017/06/13/paterno-estate-ncaa-move-toward-summary-judgment-in-lawsuit/
Time to Go Back to Football and the Historic Game Series Paterno once ended away is now less than 2 months away now.
Summary judgment is common element of litigation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For many lawsuits, summary judgment is as far as they get. For those that do make it through, the process is sometimes more time consuming than trial itself.
Summary judgment is when the court decides a case without having an actual trial first. The court looks at all of the evidence that has been collected and decides whether a trial is necessary. If it’s not, the court will issue a summary judgment, deciding that one party wins, and the other loses.
Summary judgment is also about whether trial is necessary or not. After all of the evidence is collected, one party argues that there doesn’t need to be a trial, and the other party argues the opposite.
Trial are about facts. It’s where the parties present their evidence and call their witnesses to prove to the jury or the judge that their version of the facts is true.
If there is a factual dispute or disagreement about what actually happened, then a trial may be required. Summary judgment is about the law. It’s where the parties agree upon a single version of the facts and argue about how the law affects their case. If there is a legal dispute or a disagreement over what the law means or how it should apply, and if the answer to that dispute means that one party might lose their case, summary judgment might be appropriate.
Sealed Settlement expected and both parties agree. Now almost all other Civil Lawsuits will follow and the entire Penn State Scandal is over except for Spanier and Sandusky Appeals Rulings.
Onward State:
Excerpts:
The Paterno estate’s lawsuit against the NCAA may be resolved without going to trial. In an order dated June 9, specially-presiding Senior Judge John Leete of Potter County granted a joint request by the Paternos and the NCAA to file under seal motions for summary judgment and response and reply briefs. Attorneys for both parties filed a joint motion on June 7 asking the court to file under seal “forthcoming dispositive motions” — meaning they would ask the court to decide the case — as well as supporting, responsive and reply briefs for those motions.
“The parties anticipate that the motions, responses, replies and supporting briefs will contain portions that have been designated ‘Confidential’ or ‘Highly Confidential'” under a protective order issued by Leete in 2014, Paterno attorney Thomas Weber and NCAA attorney Thomas Scott wrote.
They will file redacted public versions at the same time as the sealed documents. Along with granting the joint motion, Leet ordered an amended schedule. Dispositive motions and supporting briefs will be filed by June 30, responsive briefs by Aug. 7 and reply briefs by Aug. 28..................The Paterno estate, along with former assistant coaches Jay Paterno and Bill Kenney, are suing the NCAA, its president Mark Emmert and former executive committee chair Ed Ray in Centre County Court.
The lawsuit, filed in 2013, claims commercial disparagement, defamation, tortious interference and conspiracy, citing the use of the Louis Freeh report commissioned by Penn State in the NCAA’s consent decree for sanctions with Penn State related to the school’s handling of reports of child sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky. The consent decree was replaced and most sanctions repealed or ended early. The plaintiffs say the report and sanctions resulted in damage to commercial interests and values and harmed the former assistant coaches’ ability to find similar work.
LINK:
https://onwardstate.com/2017/06/13/paterno-estate-ncaa-move-toward-summary-judgment-in-lawsuit/
Time to Go Back to Football and the Historic Game Series Paterno once ended away is now less than 2 months away now.
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