Legal Opinion
Nieves v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided January 17, 2017No. CV-16-00768-PHX-DGCPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
David G. Campbell, United States District Judge
ORDER
The parties have filed briefs on the merits of this ERISA case. Docs. 26, 29. Defendant Prudential Insurance Company of America styled its opening brief as a motion for summary judgment, to which Plaintiff has responded. Doc. 24, 31. Despite this difference in briefing, Plaintiff agrees that the Court can resolve this case on the merits. Doc. 31 at 8.1 The Ninth Circuit has also noted that, “[i]n the ERISA context, a motion for summary judgment is merely the conduit to bring the legal question before the district court and the usual tests of…
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