Forsyth v. Barr

How courts have described this case

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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”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).