Legal Opinion
Burns v. BOARD OF COM'RS OF CTY. OF JACKSON, KAN.
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided March 8, 2002No. 00-4119-SACPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
CROW, Senior District Judge.
This employment termination case comes before the court on defendants’ motion for summary judgment (Dk. 64), and the individual defendant’s motions to dismiss official capacity claims (Dk. 27).
SUMMARY JUDGMENT STANDARD
More than a “disfavored procedural shortcut,” summary judgment is an important procedure “designed ‘to secure the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action.’ Fed.R.Civ.P. 1.” Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 106 S.Ct. 2548, 91 L.Ed.2d 265(1986). At the same time, a summary judgment motion does not empower a…
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- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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