LOS ANGELES — In a major victory for Marvel Entertainment and its parent, the Walt Disney Company, a federal judge in New York granted them summary judgment in their legal dispute with the heirs to the comic book artist Jack Kirby, while denying the Kirbys request for judgment against Disney and Marvel.
The hearing came on dueling requests for summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by governors and attorneys general from 20 states, all but one of whom are Republicans.
Simple requests for his judgments of Ralph Nader and Viktor Chernomyrdin yielded evasions like "I don't really know him personally" and "I have no idea".
The United States District Court in New York granted Gateway's request for summary judgment last week before the matter went to trial.
That is because Judge Gutierrez in his ruling denied a request for summary judgment in favor of Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, two filmmakers behind "The Last Samurai," and their Bedford Falls Company.
The judge rejected Mr. Schulman's request for summary judgment on the extortion charge, but said he could pursue it in a trial.
The board also announced yesterday that in December, a State Supreme Court judge in Manhattan granted its request for summary judgment against former Councilwoman Una Clarke of Brooklyn.
Cerberus Capital Management, still trying to scuttle its $4 billion purchase of United Rentals Inc., said yesterday that it had filed a request for declaratory judgment in New York State Supreme Court.
The court rejected the state's request for summary judgment, saying officials there had used "an improper standard or methodology to determine which districts afford minority voters to elect their preferred candidates of choice".
The judge, however, denied Mr. Cuomo's request for a judgment against both defendants over a transaction involving General Re to improve A.I.G.'s loss reserves by $500 million without transferring risk.
In March, the California court rejected Uber's request for summary judgment in its favour and described the company's claim to be merely a technology company as opposed to a taxi company as "fatally flawed in numerous respects".
