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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Josue Romero,

Plaintiff, 

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Henke Machine, et al.,

Defendants. 

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No. CV-04-1489-PHX-SMM

ORDER

Pending before the Court is Defendant Fernando Ruiz, Inc.’s Motion for Summary

Judgment (Dkt. 100). Plaintiff Josue Romero filed a Response and Statement of Facts

opposing the Motion for Summary Judgment (Dkts. 103-104). 

Plaintiff’s Statement of Facts fails to comply with Local Rule 56.1, which requires

that the party opposing a motion for summary judgment to set forth, “for each paragraph

of the moving party’s separate statement of facts, a correspondingly numbered paragraph

indicating whether the party disputes the statement of fact set forth in that paragraph and

a reference to the specific admissible portion of the record supporting the party’s position

if the fact is disputed.” LRCiv 56.1(b). An opposing party’s failure to set forth the

separate statement of facts in this manner requires that the moving party’s statement of

facts be deemed admitted for purposes of a motion for summary judgment. LRCiv

56.1(b)(2). 

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Plaintiff’s Statement of Facts does not follow the required format. Rather, Plaintiff

states at the outset that “Plaintiff hereby either objects, disagrees, disputes, or holds that

Defendant Ruiz’ (sic) Statement of Facts, No(s) 16, 20-47 are inaccurate, conclusary (sic)

statements or opinions.” (Dkt. 104.) As such, Plaintiff’s Statement of Facts prevents the

Court from determining whether and why any genuine issues of material fact exist in this

matter. The Court will therefore order Plaintiff to file an amended Statement of Facts,

this time in accordance with the requirements of Local Rule 56.1. Accordingly,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED directing Plaintiff Josue Romero to file within ten

(10) days of the date of this Order an amended Statement of Facts that complies with

Local Rule 56.1.

DATED this 10th day of April, 2008.

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