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Supreme Court Dupree v. Younger you can appeal summary judgment ruling based on a purely legal issue without filing a post trial motion preserve the issue. Federal Rule Civil Procedure 56 a confirm whether there sufficient evidence in the trial record to support the verdict
Last week, the United States Supreme Court held that pure legal issues do not need to be renewed in a post-trial motion to preserve the argument on appeal. It contrasted legal issues.
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a Maryland prison official another chance to defend himself against a federal civil rights claim. Last week’s unanimous ruling in Dupree v. Younger rested on procedural issues, but it was an important one for the litigants involved – and, as Justice Amy Coney Barre