United States Tenth Circuit

Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(f), parties opposing a summary judgment motion for the purpose of conducting relevant discovery must file an affadavit stating what facts they hope to discover and cannot merely argue that party seeking summary judgment has control over all relevant facts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2000
• Published 11/14/2000

Judges

• STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, ANDERSON, and HENRY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark J. Bredemeier, Lee's Summit, Missouri (Daryl K. Bredemeier, Lee's Summit, Missouri, and Dale E. Bennett, Westwood, Kansas, with him on the brief), for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Nettels, Jr., Morrison & Hecker, L.L.P., Wichita, Kansas (Walter M. Brown, Morrison & Hecker, L.L.P., Kansas City, Missouri, with him on the brief), for Appellee.