Northwestern National Insurance Company v. Robert T. Baltes, D

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• affirming decision to strike affidavit of party’s attorney not based on personal knowledge and not showing that “the lawyer is ‘competent to testify to the matters stated’”
• affirming decision to strike lawyer’s affidavit not based on personal knowledge
• declining to consider at summary judgment “pages of depositions taken in other actions” because “the other actions were [not] between the same parties or their representatives or successors in interest” and the defendants offered no alternative basis for their admissibility
• “District judges are not archaeologists. They need not excavate masses of papers in search of revealing tidbits.”
• \Lawyers and litigants who decide that they will play by rules of their own invention will find that the game cannot be won.\
• “District judges are not archaeologists. They need not 22 excavate masses of papers in search of revealing tidbits”

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