Smith v. Severn

How courts have described this case

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• underscoring that, to survive summary judgment, the non-moving party must set forth specific facts to establish a genuine triable issue
• noting that \the non-moving party's failure to contest the moving party's [facts]\ \[r]educ[es] the pool from which [reasonable] inferences may be made\ in the non-moving party's favor
• principal did not need to specifically tell student and his mother basis of suspension when it was apparent from the totality of the circumstances
• “A party ‘may not defeat a properly focused motion for summary judgment’ by relying on evidence that is ‘less than significantly probative.’” (citation omitted)
• “A party ‘may not defeat a properly focused motion for summary judgment’ by relying on evidence that is ‘less than significantly probative.’” (citation omitted)
• “The question of whether a public education is a fundamental right is not a novel one.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).