Court Opinion

ID: 9499288
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 17:43:11.199166+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:59:23.608933
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RYAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
While I concur entirely with my colleagues’ conclusion that the district court’s judgment must be affirmed, I write separately to emphasize that I vote to affirm only because I’m satisfied that there is no “genuine issue of material fact,” under Fed.R.Civ.P. 56, that can preclude judgment for the plaintiff, as a matter of law, particularly as the term of art “genuine issue” has been interpreted by the Supreme Court in the Celotex trilogy. See Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 106 S.Ct. 2548, 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986), Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 106 S.Ct. 2505, 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986), Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 106 S.Ct. 1348, 89 L.Ed.2d 538 (1986).
I express no view about the sufficiency of the evidence with respect to any issue in the case.