Dawco Construction, Inc. v. United States

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• holding that affidavits in support of summary judgment can be opposed by any admissible evidence contained in answers to interrogatories
• holding that PSP Reports were admissible under this rule under the predecessor to Rule 803(8)(A)(iii), codified then at 803(8)(C)
• finding that a Pennsylvania State Police Report, “which was authored by officers charged with a legal duty and authorized to conduct the investigation, is presumed admissible under Rule 803(8)(C
• allowing a police report to establish genuine issues of material fact when offered against members of the department that prepared it, and when “authors of the Report were not and are not now parties to the litigation”
• “Transgressions of § 1986 by definition depend on a preexisting violation of § 1985.” (citation omitted) (cleaned up)
• “[T]o maintain a cause of action under § 1986, [plaintiff] must show the existence of a § 1985 conspiracy.”

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