Legal Opinion
Ashraf-Hassan v. Embassy of France
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 6, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2011-0805PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century mathematician and philosopher, once opined, “Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.” The Embassy of France in the United States, the Defendant in this long-running employment-discrimination case, begs to differ with its citizen’s observation. It is instead convinced that a particular contradiction in Plaintiff Saima Ashraf-Hassan’s testimony renders her an entirely incredible and possibly deceitful witness in the just-completed bench trial. In…
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