Initial denial of summary judgment not binding under law of the case. Denial of summary judgment is not an adjudication of rights or liabilities.
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Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.