Fifth Circuit· 4/20/1994

Forsyth v. Barr

Citations

19 F.3d 1527
28 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1371
1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 8255
1994 WL 137763

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holding that the district court has no obligation to “sift through the record in search of evidence to support [the nonmovant's] opposition to summary judgment.”
holding that unsubstantiated assertions, conclusory allegations, improbable inferences, and unsupported speculation are not competent summary judgment evidence
noting that it is not the Court’s “duty to sift through the record in support of evidence to support [a] party’s opposition”
noting that appellants had “submitted two volumes of evidentiary material, [but] they did not identify the specific portions of such evidence (if any) that supported their . . . claim”
explaining that a party opposing a motion for summary judgment on a qualified immunity defense must “identify specific evidence in the . . . record demonstrating that there is a material fact issue concerning the essential elements of its case.”
explaining it “is [not] our duty” to “sift through the record in search of evidence to support a party’s opposition to summary judgment”

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Judges: Wisdom, Barksdale, Garza

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