Filliung v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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• stating the purpose of a complaint is to define the claims in controversy, and if a party does not seek to amend his complaint, he cannot raise new claims in a summary judgment motion
• stating the purpose of a complaint is to define the claims in controversy, and if a party does not seek to amend his complaint, he cannot raise new claims in a summary judgment motion
• a reviewing court may affirm the trial court's grant of a summary judgment on any ground supported by the record
• a reviewing court may affirm the trial court’s grant of a summary judgment on any ground supported by the record
• the purpose of a complaint is to define the claims in controversy, and if a party does not seek to amend his complaint, he cannot raise new claims in a summary judgment motion
• “If a plaintiff desires to place issues in controversy that were not named in the complaint, the proper course of action is to move to amend the complaint.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).