Opinion ID: 2567337
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Wayment Submitted Sufficient Evidence to Defeat Summary Judgment with Respect to Benedict

Text: ¶ 51 As described above, the district court viewed the statements that, according to Castellano's deposition testimony, Benedict made directly to Castellano, to be too unlike those alleged in Wayment's complaint to avoid summary judgment. We perceive no such difficulty. According to Castellano, Benedict told him that Wayment abused her contacts as a reporter to start this foundation and she was in charge of a large sum of money and it's unethical. Castellano further reported that Benedict said: You can't do stories on a place that you receive money from. This formulation appears essentially similar to, if less detailed than, the allegation contained in Wayment's complaint that Benedict made false accusations that [Wayment] was terminated because she was taking money from The Huntsman Cancer Institute, was in bed with the Institute and had used her reporting contacts to try to set up a foundation for her benefit. We therefore reverse the district court on this issue and overturn its grant of summary judgment with respect to Benedict.