Legal Opinion
Alex John, Jr. v. State of Louisiana (Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities)
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 15, 1985No. 84-4524PublishedCited by 348 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RANDALL, Circuit Judge:
The district court granted the defendants-appellees’ motion for summary judgment because (1) the plaintiff-appellant, by failing to follow a local rule that requires a response to all opposed motions, effectively agreed to the entry of summary judgment and, (2) at any rate, there are no genuine issues of material fact and the defendantsappellees are entitled to judgment as a matter of law. We must reverse the judgment because (1) a local rule cannot authorize summary judgment on a record that, under Rule 56, Fed.R.Civ.P., will not support it and (2) the record in this…
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