Court Opinion

ID: 9461626
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:19:41.612119+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:10.487723
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On Petition for Rehearing
The Petition for Rehearing is denied.
Judge MERRILL would grant rehearing to decide whether the existence of issues of fact render summary judgment improper and whether, upon that question, this case can be distinguished from Starsky v. Williams, 512 F.2d 109 (9th Cir.1975).1

. The majority believes that its disposition of the appeal is in no way inconsistent with our court’s recent decision in Starsky v. Williams, 512 F.2d 109 (9th Cir.1975), cited by Judge Merrill. In Starsky our court, reviewing the entry of judgment upon cross motions for summary judgment, held that even if it were assumed arguendo that the district judge did resolve genuinely disputed issues of material fact, the district judge nevertheless acted properly because the parties had in effect submitted the case to the court for trial on an agreed statement of facts embodied in a limited record. The trial judge was thus entitled to resolve any remaining disputed factual issues..
Although it might be possible for us to bring the present case within Starsky, because this case also involved motions for summary judgment by both parties and two comprehensive agreed statements of fact bringing “all the [relevant] facts . . before the [c]ourt” (354 F.Supp. at 69), we find it unnecessary to do so because we agree with the District Court that no genuine issue of material fact, requiring trial, was presented.