Legal Opinion
Hotel 71 Mezz Lender LLC v. National Retirement Fund
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 6, 2015No. 14-2034PublishedCited by 235 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
The price a litigant pays for filing a flawed or unconvincing motion for summary judgment ordinarily is denial of the motion, not loss ,, of the case. But the district court in this case appears to have treated the lack of sufficient evidentiary support for the motion as a reason to enter summary judgment against the mov-ant. See Hotel 71 Mezz Lender LLC v. Natl Retirement Fund, 9 F.Supp.3d 863, 873-74 (N.D.Ill.2014). The court did so in the absence of a cross-motion for summary judgment on the issue that it found to be dispositive, and without first giving the'…
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