Rule 192 Summary Judgments—Multiple Issues

A summary judgment is when a judge decides part or all of a case without a full trial. Sometimes a summary judgment only settles some issues in a case, not all of them. When that happens, the judge has a few options for how to handle it.

The judge can approve the motion but wait to make it official until the rest of the case is resolved. The judge can also approve the motion and make it official right away. A third option is to approve the motion, make it official, but put a hold on enforcing it until the other issues in the case are finished.

There is also a specific rule for when one side owes the other money, but the amounts are different. If the person fighting the summary judgment has their own claim for a smaller amount, the judge can enter a judgment for the difference between the two amounts and allow that to be enforced right away.