PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Summary Judgment & Summary Adjudication
......Ruling on Motion
.........Limitations on Summary Adjudication
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SA may be granted only when entire claim for punitive damages is eliminated—not as piecemeal disposition of some of asserted facts in claim.

SA allowed on SOL defense as to each individual forged check.

Issue of duty may be summarily adjudicated.

SA not permitted for single item of compensatory damages that does not dispose of entire cause of action.

SA motion could not be granted in corporate dissolution action when only one of two grounds in cause of action for dissolving corp. addressed by moving party.

Duty of insurer to defend may be summarily adjudicated if entire cause of action resolved.

Court can’t refuse to rule on merits of SA motion where adjudication would not dispose of entire cause of action because 2 separate and distinct wrongful acts are combined in same cause.