Opinion ID: 789286
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Heading: Discovery and Evidentiary Issues

Text: 28 Dr. Fenje has raised a host of objections to discovery and evidentiary decisions by the district court. We need not address these issues. The salient facts are few and undisputed: (1) Dr. Fenje was asked at his interview to describe his past work experience and to disclose any skeletons in his closet; (2) Dr. Fenje omitted any reference to his dismissal from the residency program in Scotland in response to the interview questioning; (3) upon discovery of the withheld information, Dr. Fenje had an opportunity to explain why he did not disclose his prior work history and why his nondisclosure should not affect his association with UIC; and (4) Dr. Feld and his colleagues in the anesthesiology department reached a professional academic judgment that Dr. Fenje's dishonesty rendered him unfit for future training at UIC. 29 We have concluded that summary judgment was properly granted based upon the foregoing undisputed facts; Dr. Fenje's discovery and evidentiary arguments are therefore superfluous. Fenje challenges the district court's order denying access to UIC's files on other residency applicants; the contents of other residents' files have no bearing on our evaluation of what process Dr. Fenje was due or whether Dr. Feld made any false statements about Fenje's termination or harbored any personal animosity toward him. Fenje also contends that a variety of documents relied upon by the district court lacked proper authentication; none of these are essential to our decision and summary judgment would have been proper even if the content of these documents had been disregarded. This is not to say that the district court erred in any respect in its extremely thorough and painstaking rejection of Dr. Fenje's evidentiary objections in the ten-page appendix to its published opinion. See Fenje, 301 F.Supp.2d at 809-19. Rather, we conclude only that we need not undertake review of these aspects of the district court's decision in light of our decision on the merits of the summary judgment. 30 AFFIRMED.