· 7/1/2005
Mark Wilson v. McRae Inc., Doing Business as Carson Pirie Scott & Co.
Citations
- 413 F.3d 692
- 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 13128
- 2005 WL 1540260
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- explaining that self-serving nature of party’s affidavit does not make affidavit deficient
- “Most affidavits are self-serving, as is most testimony, and this does not permit a district judge to denigrate a plaintiff’s evidence when deciding whether a material dispute requires trial.”
- plaintiff alleged that the private shopkeeper should be treated as a state actor because, plaintiff claimed, he had struck a deal with the police to arrest anyone the shopkeeper desig- nated
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Judges: Bauer, Easterbrook, Rovner
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