LATEST SUMMARIES

COMMERCIAL LAW, CONTRACTS, CORPORATION & ENTERPRISE LAW, INJURY AND TORT LAW, INSURANCE LAW
• Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. Owen

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GOVERNMENT LAW
• Card v. City of Everett

LATEST SUMMARIES

COMMERCIAL LAW, CONTRACTS, CORPORATION & ENTERPRISE LAW, INJURY AND TORT LAW, INSURANCE LAW
Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. Owen, No. 06-35677
In coverage dispute involving a commercial auto insurance policy brought by plaintiff-insurer against defendant, former vice-president, secretary, and director of corporate named insured, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where: 1) the district court erred in reforming the policy to provide coverage to all owners, officers, and directors of the corporate named insured, regardless of whether they were occupying an insured auto; and 2) insurer was entitled to summary judgment because defendant presented no evidence that she was using a friend's truck in place of one of insured's vehicles that was withdrawn from use because of breakdown, repair, servicing, loss, or destruction. Read more...

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GOVERNMENT LAW
Card v. City of Everett, No. 05-35996
In an action claiming that defendant-city's display of a six-foot tall granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the city hall violated state and federal constitutional Establishment Clauses, summary judgment for the city is affirmed where: 1) the circuit court finds that a limited exception to the Lemon test exists in contexts closely analogous to those in Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677 (2005); and 2) this case presents such a closely analogous context that Van Orden controls, and the display at issue does not violate the Establishment Clauses. Read more...