Legal Opinion · Concurrence
Grimes Ex Rel. Estate of Grimes v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 21, 2015No. 13-7038Published
1ConcurrenceGriffith, Circuit Judge
I join the majority opinion in full but write separately to raise concerns with how the district court construed the Rules of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (Local Rules) in granting summary judgment to the District on Grimes’s Eighth Amendment claim.
As the majority opinion recounts, Grimes did not file an opposition to the District’s motion for summary judgment. Maj. Op. 87-89. Instead, she asked the district court to strike the motion based on an alleged conflict of interest involving the District’s former Attorney General. The court refused and granted the…
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