United States Ninth Circuit

In the absence of a local rule, the district court does not have an independent duty to search and sift the factual record for the benefit of a defaulting party, or consider materials outside the motion papers and things referred to in them.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/04/2000
• Decided 01/16/2001
• Published 01/16/2001

Judges

• KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:, Before:  WOOD, Jr.,KLEINFELD, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gary Michael Coutin, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• April Madison-Ramsey, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees.