Michael B. Smith v. Douglas Lamz and the Village of Algonquin, a Municipal Corporation

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• holding that “a failure to respond by the nonmovant as mandated by the local rules results in an admission”
• holding that “mere disagreement with the movant’s asserted facts is inadequate if made without reference to specific supporting material”
• holding that when a nonmovant fails to dispute facts set forth in a movant’s 56.1 statement, those facts are deemed admitted for the purposes of summary judgment
• holding that a witness’s statement to a police officer accusing the plaintiff of a crime was not hearsay when offered to show that the accusation led the officer to believe the plaintiff had committed that crime
• explaining that “a mere disagreement with the movant’s asserted facts is inadequate if made without reference to specific supporting material”
• stating that it is not a court’s responsibility to “wade through improper denials and legal argument in search of a genuinely disputed fact” (citation omitted)

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