Vargas-Ruiz v. Golden Arch Development, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that when “a party professes an inability to respond to a summary judgment motion because of incomplete discovery, his recourse is by way of Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(f)”
• finding additional discovery unwarranted when party \had available to him a full complement of discovery devices\ earlier in the case but \chose not to use these devices in a timely fashion\
• finding additional discovery unwarranted when party “had available to him a full complement of discovery devices” earlier in the case but “chose not to use these devices in a timely fashion”
• Rule 56(f) motion should be filed “promptly upon service of defendant’s dispositive motion”
• \[A plaintiff] must offer the trial court more than optimistic surmise.\
• “Among the ways that a plaintiff can rebut a prima facie finding of 4 probable cause is by showing that the criminal prosecution was induced by fraud, corruption, 5 perjury, fabricated evidence, or other wrongful conduct undertaken in bad faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).