Opinion ID: 1264810
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: standard of review

Text: This court reviews the grant of summary judgment de novo, applying the same standards as the district court. Summary judgment is affirmed if, viewing the evidence most favorably to the non-moving party, there are no genuine issues of material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Summary judgment is not appropriate if the prima facie case is supported by specific facts sufficient to raise a genuine issue for trial. This court accepts as true all facts presented to the district court by the non-moving party, if properly supported by the record. Thompson v. Hirano Tecseed Co., 456 F.3d 805, 808 (8th Cir.2006) (citations omitted). It was the United States, as the moving party, which bore the initial burden of informing the district court of the basis for its motion, and identifying those portions of the pleadings, the discovery, disclosure materials and affidavits which it believes demonstrate the absence of a genuine issue of material fact. Celotex v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 323, 106 S.Ct. 2548, 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986). But having met that burden, it was left to Cirrus, as the party with the burden of proof at trial, see, e.g., Wear v. Buffalo-Red River Watershed Dist., 621 N.W.2d 811, 813 (Minn.Ct.App. 2001), to present sufficient evidence to establish the elements essential to its claims. See Celotex, 477 U.S. at 322-23, 106 S.Ct. 2548. Thus, Cirrus, even though the non-moving party for summary-judgment purposes, must still `present[ ] evidence sufficiently supporting the disputed material facts [such] that a reasonable jury could return a verdict in [its] favor.' Pope v. ESA Servs., Inc., 406 F.3d 1001, 1003-04 (8th Cir.2005) (quoting Gregory v. City of Rogers, 974 F.2d 1006, 1010 (8th Cir. 1992)). The fact that, at trial, this case would be decided by a judge, not a jury, see 28 U.S.C. § 2402, does not increase the deference we give to the district court's decision at summary judgment. See Med. Inst. of Minn. v. Nat'l Ass'n of Trade & Tech. Sch., 817 F.2d 1310, 1315 (8th Cir. 1987). We review the district court's decision not to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state-law claims for an abuse of discretion. See Carlsbad Tech., 129 S.Ct. at 1867.