Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.

Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 3, 1985 Decided June 25, 1986
Full case name	Jack Anderson, et al. v. Liberty Lobby, Incorporated, et al.
Citations	477 U.S. 242 (more) 106 S. Ct. 2505; 91 L. Ed. 2d 202; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 115; 54 U.S.L.W. 4755; 4 Fed. R. Serv. 3d (Callaghan) 1041; 12 Media L. Rep. 2297
Holding
The Court laid out the standard for a trial court to grant summary judgment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, O'Connor
Dissent	Brennan
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by Burger

Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1986), is a United States Supreme Court case articulating the standard for a trial court to grant summary judgment. Summary judgment will lie when, taking all factual inferences in the non-movant's favor, there exists no genuine issue as to a material fact such that the movant deserves judgment as a matter of law. Because appellate courts always recite Liberty Lobby when reviewing a trial court's grant of summary judgment, Liberty Lobby is the most quoted Supreme Court case.^[1]

See also

• Jack Anderson (columnist)
• Liberty Lobby
• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, another major case on summary judgment under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

References

1. List of Most-Quoted Cases

External links

• Text of Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, 477 U.S. 242 (1986) is available from:  Findlaw  Justia