United States Second Circuit

At the summary judgment stage, when a plaintiff relies almost exclusively on his own testimony, a district court may, for the purposes of determining whether there are any genuine issues of material fact, make assessments about whether a reasonable jury could credit the plaintiff's testimony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2005
• Published 10/18/2005

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before:  MESKILL and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and NEVAS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kimberly B. Kabnick (Douglas F. Broder, Kilpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, New York, NY; Roberto C. Martens, Jr., Nixon Peabody LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Grace Goodman (Larry A. Sonnenshein, of counsel;  Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, on the brief), Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.