Opinion ID: 78803
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: summary judgment timeliness

Text: Appellants allege that the district court should not have dismissed their claims until further discovery had occurred. The district court refused to allow more discovery before considering the motion, finding that the record was sufficient to determine what was contained in the relevant employment documents, and that the issue of whether the GRB process comported with procedural fairness was a question of law for the court to decide. Alonso, 2009 WL 1469641, at . We agree. Appellants submitted affidavits to the district court with their opposition to Appellee’s motion, but failed to allege facts refuting Appellee’s claims. In addition, “the question whether the grievance procedure afforded plaintiff elementary fairness [is] a question of law which should [not] be submitted to the jury.” Renny v. Port Huron Hospital, 398 N.W.2d 327, 329 (Mich. 1986). The decision to grant the motion was therefore timely.