Franco v. Thomas

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• stating that assertions setting out admissible facts in “self-serving affidavits,” unless conclusory or made without personal knowledge, must be considered on summary judgment
• stating that “an affidavit lacking specific facts or support from the record” may be “insufficient to create a genuine factual issue”
• stating that assertions setting out admissible facts in “self-serving affidavits,” unless conclusory or made without personal knowledge, must be consid- ered on summary judgment
• explaining that, although “self[- ]serving” affidavits are a “perfectly admissible [form of] evidence,” an “affidavit lacking specific facts or support from the record” may be insufficient, by itself, “to create genuine factual issue”
• same, and specifically rejecting argument that employee’s “sworn statements could not, without more, create a genuine factual dispute because they were ‘self-serving’”
• district court correctly treated motion to compel arbitration as if movant “sought summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(c

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