Garcia v. Hartford Police Department

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming grant of employer’s motion for summary judgment where “one of the sergeants promoted to lieutenant over [plaintiff] was also Hispanic”
• “A submission in opposition to (or in support of) summary judgment need be considered only to the extent that it would have been admissible at trial.”
• “[T]he plaintiff must show that . . . the speech at issue was made as a citizen on matters of public concern rather than as an employee on matters of personal interest . . . .”
• “When the defendant offers a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for the adverse employment action, the burden is on the plaintiff to point to evidence that reasonably supports a finding of prohibited discrimination; otherwise, the defendant is entitled to summary judgment.”
• expert reports containing “speculative or conclusory” assertions are “inappropriate for consideration on summary judgment”; to defeat summary judgment, an expert report must “add... facts to the record that create a genuine dispute as to any material fact” (emphasis omitted)
• “I viewed this training as targeting a certain group.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).