L.A. Law (TV Series)

The Douglas Fur Ball (1987)

Dan Ziskie: Michael McLeish

Quotes 

• Michael McLeish : Your Honor, this is outrageous. Counsel is asking for summary judgment when there are substantial questions of material fact.

  Ann Kelsey : I'm asking for judgment only on the second and third causes of action, Your Honor. Which go to design defect only.

  Michael McLeish : Which is a big part of our case.

  Judge Hillary Miller Johnson : Counselors?

  Ann Kelsey : So big, he didn't come up with a single fact in support of it.

  Judge Hillary Miller Johnson : Miss Kelsey...

  Ann Kelsey : So big, they didn't file any affidavit or exhibits which would indicate anything defective in that plane.

  Judge Hillary Miller Johnson : I must agree, Mr. McLeish, that the evidence in support of the allegations contained in the second and third causes of action is rather thin. Have you got anything else?

  Michael McLeish : Your Honor, I have submitted numerous affidavits which go to the sophisticated nature of the craft. Such sophistication rendering virtually inoperable by the deceased.

  Ann Kelsey : Which goes only to the negligence theory in the first cause of action, Your Honor. And has nothing whatever to do with the question of design defect.

  Judge Hillary Miller Johnson : [Agrees]  She's got you, sir. I'm going to sustain you on the first cause of action. But as to the second and third, there is simply no genuine issue of material fact.

  Judge Hillary Miller Johnson : Judgment in favor of defendant as to the second and third causes of action. Counsel for both sides should prepare to proceed to trial on the first cause of action only. Thank you both.

  [George Cromwell is relieved] 

  George Cromwell : Brilliant.

  Ann Kelsey : Thank you.