Opinion ID: 2353157
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Heading: The Procedure for Summary Judgment 1

Text: The required procedure for summary judgment motions is found in Rule 74.04. The party seeking summary judgment must attach a statement of uncontroverted material facts ... [stated] with particularity in separately numbered paragraphs  and supported with specific references to the pleadings, discovery, exhibits, or affidavits. Rule 74.04(c)(1) (emphasis added). The responding party must then admit or deny each of the movant's factual statements in numbered paragraphs based on the record. Rule 74.04(c)(1). The response may also set forth additional material facts that remain in dispute presented in consecutively numbered paragraphs, to which the movant must respond with a supplemental statement that controverts each factual assertion from the record. Id. A denial may not rest upon the mere allegations or denials of the party's pleading. Rule 74.04(c)(2). This procedure is not discretionary; it is mandatory and must be followed.