John C. Briggs v. John E. Potter, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service

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• noting that a district court can abuse its discretion by “misapply[ing] the correct legal standard when reaching a conclusion”
• holding that an affidavit should not have been excluded, even though the declarant had been “questioned generally” about the relevant issue during a deposition, because the declarant “was not expressly asked” about it and “was not under any obligation to volunteer” that information
• noting that courts should apply a “relatively narrow definition of contradiction”
• dismissing a plaintiff’s age discrimination claim as preempted by the ADEA
• no abuse of discretion in striking portion of affidavit making “argumentative interpretation of statements of fact”
• a party is under no obligation to volunteer information where not “expressly asked” about it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).