Collingham v. Northfield Hospital and Clinics

Background

The court was considering the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment. Summary judgment is a decision based on the submitted materials when there is no genuine dispute about a fact important to the case. The court had previously stayed the proceedings while the time for appeals in a related case expired.

The opinion states that the related case was reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and that the time for further appeals had expired without any subsequent appeals being filed.

Order

The court lifted the stay entered on July 26, 2024. It ordered the parties to cooperate in promptly scheduling a hearing on the pending cross-motions for summary judgment. The court stated that it would decide those motions based on the briefing already submitted and the arguments of counsel.

The court also allowed each party to file one letter brief by September 20, 2024, limited to five pages. The briefs could address how the Eighth Circuit’s decision in the related case affected the parties’ summary-judgment positions and could provide other supplemental authority that was unavailable when the original briefing was submitted.

Disposition

Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan lifted the stay and issued scheduling and supplemental-briefing instructions. This order did not grant or deny either party’s motion for summary judgment and did not decide the merits of the case.