Cnty., 236 Mont. 412, 418, 771 P.2d 97, 101 (1989). ¶44 A district court may grant a motion for summary judgment without first holding a hearing. Chapman v. Maxwell, 2014 MT 35, ¶ 11, 374 Mont. 12, 322 P.3d 1029 (citing SVKV L.L.C. v. Harding, 2006 MT 297, ¶ 37, 334 Mont. 395, 148 P.3d 584). We have held that “there may be an occasion where the movant is so ‘clearly entitled’ as a matter of law to summary judgment that the district court may dispense with the need for a hearing.” Richards v. Cnty. of Missoula, 2009 MT 453, ¶ 17, 354 Mont. 334, 223 P.3d 878 (citing Cole, 236 Mont. at 419, 771 P.2d at 101). Thus, we will not put a district court in error for failing to hold a summary judgment hearing if the hearing testimony would not raise any issue of material fact. Richards, ¶¶ 25-26 (<HOLDING>); Dollar Plus, ¶ 39 (holding that the district
holding that there was a genuine issue of material fact precluding summary judgment holding that due process requires an evidentiary hearing when parties submissions in contempt proceedings raise disputed issue of material fact holding stricklands prejudice prong was not met because appellate counsels failure to raise an evidentiary issue would not have altered the result of the proceedings because the erroneous admission of evidence would have constituted harmless error beyond a reasonable doubt holding that a summary judgment hearing was not necessary and would not have added anything to the proceedings because defendants one lone memorandum would not raise an issue of material fact holding that the prejudice prong in strickland was not satisfied because counsels failure to raise an evidentiary issue would not have altered the result of the proceedings because the erroneous admission of the evidence would have constituted harmless error