Hooks v. Pettaway’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““On September 14, 2009, Hooks and Pettaway were involved in an automobile accident in Mobile County. On February 26, 2010, Hooks sued Pettaway, alleging claims of negligence and wantonness. Pettaway answered, denying the material allegations of the complaint and asserting various affirmative defenses. The trial court scheduled a jury trial for March 14, 2011, but, after two requests for a continuance, the trial was rescheduled for September 27, 2011. On September 21, 2011, six days before the scheduled trial date, Hooks took the deposition testimony of a physician who had provided treatment in this case. On September 26, 2011, one day before the scheduled trial date, Pettaway moved for a summary judgment, relying on the physician’s deposition testimony taken by Hooks on September 21. In Petta-way’s summary-judgment motion, he alleged that Hooks had failed to prove that Pettaway’s actions had caused Hooks’s alleged injuries. On September 27, 2011, the day the jury trial was scheduled to occur, the trial court entered a summary judgment in favor of Pettaway. “On September 28, 2011, Hooks filed a postjudgment motion to alter, amend, or vacate the summary judgment. In her postjudgment motion, Hooks argued, among other things, that Pettaway’s motion did not comply with the requirements of Rule 56, Ala. R. Civ. P., because, Hooks said, the motion was filed ‘too late.’ Hooks also argued in her postjudgment motion that she had objected to the trial court’s ‘entertaining the [summary-”

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