Sean McDonough (Partner-Orlando) was quoted on his oral argument in a case currently before the Florida Supreme Court in which counsel argued that the state’s summary judgment standard has become “unworkable.” Justices were urged to reinstate a trial court’s summary judgment ruling that dashcam video directly contradicted the plaintiff’s opposing evidence and established that there were no genuine issues of material fact that needed to be determined by a jury. Sean said “the key terms are ‘genuine’ and ‘material’ and that many Florida courts have ignored the former since the Florida Supreme Court's introduction of the current ‘no slightest doubt’ standard in the 1966 case Holl v. Talcott.”
 
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