The Kitchen Planners v. Samuel E. Friedman

Summary

The Court held that the correct standard for a summary‑judgment motion based on insufficiency of the evidence is the "genuine issue of material fact" standard of Rule 56(c), overruling Hancock's "mere scintilla" formulation, and applied that standard to find Kitchen Planners failed to show a genuine issue of material fact regarding the timeliness of its lien‑serving statement, so the Friedmans’ summary judgment was affirmed.