Lea Cordoba v. Dillard's Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• observing that, at the summary judgment stage, “[s]peculation does not create a genuine issue of fact” (emphasis omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that “unsupported speculation…does not meet a party’s burden of producing some defense to a summary judgment motion. Speculation does not create a genuine issue of fact….”
• explaining that “unsupported speculation . . . does not meet a party’s burden of producing some defense to a summary judgment motion” because “[s]peculation does not create a genuine issue of fact”
• dismissing as dicta statements in previous cases that a plaintiff must show the employer \had actual or constructive knowledge\ of the disability
• stating speculation does not create a genuine issue of fact for trial
• “Speculation does not create a genuine issue of fact; instead, it creates a false issue, the demolition of which is a primary goal of summary judgment.”

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