Court Opinion

ID: 9481278
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:13:16.091139+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:11.566486
License: Public Domain

BAUER, Chief Judge,
dissenting.
I join Judge Flaum’s dissent. I confess, however, that I found great merit in the majority opinion. My dissent is really occasioned by my conviction that summary judgment is too rapid a disposition in this case, that sufficient factual questions remain that belong to a jury. And when these factual questions unfold in the trial setting there always remains a right in the court to correct or prevent a verdict that is founded, not on the law and facts, but on sympathy and prejudice. I think we have denied the plaintiff in this case a basic right of all mankind: the right to rise at least to the height of failing.