PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Summary Judgment & Summary Adjudication
......Ruling on Motion

• "Material Issue" Defined
• Affidavits Construed Liberally
• Amending Pleadings
• Cases pro Responding Party
• Credibility as Factor
• Deemed Admissions Basis
• Denial Non-appealable
• First Amendment Issues
• If Single Issue Present-Motion Denied
• Incomplete Discovery
• Inferences
• Issues of Law Only
• Judgment on Pleadings Compared
• Judicially Noticed Documents
• Limitations on Summary Adjudication
• No SA If Only SJ Motion Filed
• Order to Identify Evid. Warrnt’g Denial
• Order: Party Preparing
• Relation to Material Fact
• Res Judicata
• Sanctions/Attorney Fees
• SJ Granted on SA Motion
• Specify Grounds if Denial
• State of Mind of Sole Witness
• Statutory Test
• Summary Adjudication Granted
• Summary Judgment Granted
• Three-Step Process
• Uncontroverted Evidence