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Parties Involved:
Corliss Lee
Plaintiff
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Defendant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CORLISS LEE,

Plaintiff,

v.

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE 

COMPANY,

Defendant.

Case No. 13-cv-05458-VC 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART 

DEFENDANTS MOTION FOR 

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Re: Dkt. No. 40

On February 10, 2015 the Court granted in part Metlife's motion for summary judgment. 

Docket No. 57; see also Docket No. 40. In this Order, the Court concluded that, "with respect to 

Lee's claim for breach of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing, there is no evidence in 

the record to support a contention that Metlife acted in bad faith." But because Lee had not yet 

been able to schedule the deposition of Patricia Sullivan, and because it appeared that Sullivan's 

deposition could conceivably provide evidence in support of Lee's claim that Metlife acted in bad 

faith in connection with the July 2012 denial, the Court denied Metlife's motion for summary 

judgment on that claim, "without prejudice to revisiting the issue at the pretrial conference." 

Docket No. 57. 

Subsequently, Lee's counsel was able to depose Sullivan, and the parties have now briefed 

the issue whether Sullivan's deposition provides evidence to support Lee's claim that Metlife acted 

in bad faith. Sullivan's deposition testimony does not provide a sufficient basis by which a 

reasonable jury could conclude that Metlife acted in bad faith. Accordingly, the Court grants 

Metlife's motion for summary judgment on this claim. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 13, 2015

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VINCE CHHABRIA

United States District Judge

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