Opinion ID: 438818
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Heading: Full and Fair Opportunity to Present Case

Text: 13 Kilroy argues that the documents filed by the parties did not provide notice that the adequacy of the EIS would be decided by way of summary judgment. He contends that by granting summary judgment in favor of EPA the district court deprived him of a full and fair opportunity to present his case. 14 Kilroy was on notice that EPA had requested summary judgment on all claims raised by plaintiff. The first amended complaint does not directly address the adequacy of the EIS because the EIS was not completed at that time. Nonetheless, when Kilroy wanted to raise the issue in his own motion for partial summary judgment, he claimed that the adequacy of the EIS was raised by his complaint and that EPA had notice of that fact. We fail to see how the adequacy issue was raised by his motion for partial summary judgment but was not a claim addressed by EPA's motion for summary judgment. It was therefore not error for the district court to rule upon the adequacy of the EIS. 15 This is not a case where summary judgment was granted on an issue as to which the losing party had no opportunity to present argument. See, e.g., Fountain v. Filson, 336 U.S. 681, 69 S.Ct. 754, 93 L.Ed. 971 (1949). Nor is this a case where the court entered summary judgment in favor of a party who had not made such a request. See, e.g., Matter of Hailey, 621 F.2d 169 (5th Cir.1980). Kilroy's reliance on these cases is misplaced.
16 Kilroy further claims that the district court violated local rule 3.14.4. This rule provides that material facts which are adequately supported by the moving party are admitted to exist without controversy except to the extent that they are included in a statement of genuine issues and controverted by affidavit or other written evidence. Because EPA did not controvert Kilroy's proposed findings of fact, Kilroy contends that the district court should have accepted them as true. 17 Our reading of Kilroy's proposed findings of fact reveals that they are actually legal conclusions relating to the adequacy of the EIS and were disputed by EPA in its memoranda. The district court was not obligated to accept Kilroy's legal conclusions as true simply because he characterized them as statements of fact. The local rules were not violated.