Jeffreys v. The City of New York

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• holding that “district courts may not weigh evidence or assess the credibility of witnesses at the summary judgment stage”
• explaining that it is not the duty of district courts to weigh credibility at the summary judgment stage
• emphasizing that, to survive summary judgment, a non-moving party cannot “rely on conclusory allegations or unsubstantiated speculation” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• noting that “[a]ssessments of credibility and choices between conflicting versions of the events are matters for the jury, not for the court on summary judgment”
• noting that the “mere existence of a scintilla of evidence in support of the plaintiffs position will be insufficient” to survive summary judgment (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that summary judgment was properly granted when a plaintiff’s inconsistent testimony, considered in light of the surrounding record, failed to raise a material issue of fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).