Essays on Summary Judgement

Sheila Renee White MAYO v. HYATT CORPORATION

898 F.2d 47 (April 10, 1990)

Facts: On February 20, 1987 Jack Mayo, Jr. died. His death was the result of complications pertaining to a fractured skull he suffered three days earlier on February 17 falling down the stairs of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans, where he had been staying. Prior to the fall, Mayo had been drinking heavily off the hotel’s premises. Toxicology reports later confirmed that not only at the time of his fall was Mayo’s blood alcohol content over three times the legal limit but also that he had taken a significant ...

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When borrowers fail to pay their debt, lenders have a right to recover their loans from borrowers. There is a judicial foreclosure process that every lender has to follow in state of Florida. The state of Florida has witnessed very high rate of foreclosure in recent times in comparison of other US states. There is no other process of foreclosure in the state of Florida while other states provide other states provide alternative ways to foreclosure. Florida is not the only one state where judicial foreclosure is the sole process of foreclosure, but there are several other states that ...

JONES &TREVOR MARKETING INC. V. JONATHAN L. LOWRY, ET. AL. In Jones & Trevor Marketing, Inc. v. Jonathan L., Lowry, et. al., 2012 UT 39; 284 P.3d 630 (2012), Jones & Trevor Marketing entered into a contract with Jonathan Lowery and Nathan Kinsella. The contractual relationship did not flourish and Lowery and Kinsella sought to cancel the contract. In response. Jones & Trevor Marketing filed suit. During the pending lawsuit, the defendants dissolved the company and Jones & Trevor sought instead to hold Lowery and Kinsella personally liable by piercing the corporate veil under the alter ego theory. Jones & Trevor Marketing alleged that ...