Opinion ID: 615207
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Heading: standard of review

Text: We start our appellate engines considering the applicable standard of review. Summary judgment is properly granted where the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a). The movant must support her motion by citing specifically to materials in the record or by showing that the materials cited do not establish the absence or presence of a genuine dispute, or that an adverse party cannot produce admissible evidence to support the fact. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c)(1). The scope of appellate review of entry of summary judgment in ADA cases, as in all others, is de novo.  Mulloy v. Acushnet Co., 460 F.3d 141, 145 (1st Cir.2006) (quoting EEOC v. Amego, Inc., 110 F.3d 135, 141 (1st Cir.1997)) (internal quotation marks omitted). We must construe the record in the light most favorable to the nonmovant and resolv[e] all reasonable inferences in that party's favor while safely ignoring conclusory allegations, improbable inferences, and unsupported speculation. Carroll v. Xerox Corp., 294 F.3d 231, 237 (1st Cir.2002) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). In doing so, we are not married to the trial court's reasoning but, rather, may affirm on any independently sufficient ground made manifest by the record. Cahoon v. Shelton, 647 F.3d 18, 22 (1st Cir.2011).