PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Summary Judgment & Summary Adjudication
......Supporting Evidence
.........Results of Discovery
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SJ motion may be supported by answers to interrogs and depos.

Grant of SJ reversed where trial court took an overly expansive view of D'Amico and an unduly myopic view of the entire record before it in basing decision on discovery admissions only.

Use of depos in support of or in opposition to SJ motion in conjunction with or in lieu of affidavits held proper.

P, who declined to sign depo transcript, then made changes in it, was bound by his discovery admissions made at time of his depo.

Proper to rely on answers to interrogs in SJ proceeding.

Interrogs may be used in support of SJ motion.

Attorney’s summary of P’s depo testimony in opposition affidavit held permissible.