Botley, James Lee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Indicating that allegations in an affidavit “can suffice to defeat summary judgment only insofar as they were made on personal knowledge.”
• stating that the court “may treat” the plaintiff’s verified complaint “as an affidavit for summary judgment purposes” so far as the allegations therein “were made on personal knowledge”
• stating that the court “may treat” the plaintiff’s verified complaint “as an affidavit for summary judgment purposes” so far as the allegations therein “were made on personal knowledge” (citation omitted)
• only allegations in a verified complaint that are based on personal knowledge may be considered in opposition to a motion for summary judgment
• “Though we may treat [plaintiff’s] verified complaint ‘as an affidavit for summary judgment purposes,’ the allegations contained therein can suffice to defeat summary judgment only insofar as they were made on personal knowledge.”
• “Though we may treat [plaintiff’s] verified complaint as an affidavit for summary judgment purposes, ‘the allegations contained therein can suffice to defeat summary judgment only insofar as they were made on personal knowledge.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).