Celotex is read here as a reading of Rule 56. The note begins with the text of the Rule, takes up the burden-shifting framework the decision articulates, and treats the subsequent amendments to the Rule as a partial codification of the decision's procedure.
Particular attention is given to the materials properly before the court — the pleadings, the discovery materials, the affidavits — and to the showing each party must make to satisfy the standard.
The note closes with a working checklist for the practitioner who must oppose or move for summary judgment on a developed record.