Opinion ID: 614071
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Heading: Consideration of Late-Filed Documents

Text: As a preliminary matter, we must decide whether the district court properly refused to consider late-filed documents the Hises sought to present and whether any of those documents are properly before us. In the district court, the Hises filed a bare-bones opposition to GoPets Ltd.'s motion for summary judgment. Several weeks later, the Hises filed voluminous supplemental materials opposing summary judgment. The Hises seek to include those supplemental materials in the record on appeal. The district court refused to consider the supplemental materials in ruling on the summary judgment motion, holding that neither the federal nor the local rules required it to give the Hises yet another bite at the apple, and that in any event the new documents would not change the result. The district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to consider the Hises' late-filed materials. See Carpenter v. Universal Star Shipping, S.A., 924 F.2d 1539, 1547 (9th Cir.1991). We note, however, that we may consider many of the supplemental documents because they had been filed as exhibits to the Hises' initial opposition to GoPets Ltd.'s motion for a preliminary injunction, and those exhibits were properly before the district court.