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Silverman v. Board of Educ. of City of Chicago

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled in part
Court
Seventh Circuit
Citation
637 F.3d 729
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
52 of 52
Citing cases (total)
52
Treatment dates
2016
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. All 52 flagged citations to Silverman v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago have been read. The confirmed treatment is listed below: the Seventh Circuit overruled its use of the direct and indirect methods as required tests for proving employment discrimination.
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Its ruling on Silverman’s claims and other legal points were left intact.

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52 later cases cite Silverman v. Board of Educ. of City of Chicago; 52 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Seventh Circuit overruled Silverman to the extent it required courts to use separate direct and indirect methods to assess employment discrimination evidence.

    Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises, Inc. · Seventh Circuit · filed

    We   need   to   bring   har-­‐‑ mony   to   circuit   law,   and   the   way   to   do   that   is   to   overrule   Andrews,  743  F.3d  230;  Silverman,  637  F.3d  729;  Hemsworth  v.   Quotesmith.com,  Inc.,  476  F.3d  487  (7th  Cir.  2007);  Rhodes,  359   F.3d  at  498;  Haywood  v.  Lucent  Technologies,  Inc.,  323  F.3d  524   (7th   Cir.   2003);   Oest   v.   Illinois   Department   of   Corrections,   240   F.3d   605   (7th   Cir.   2001);   Radue   v.   Kimberly-­‐‑Clark   Corp.,   219   F.3d   612   (7th   Cir.   2000);   Chiaramonte   v.   Fashion   Bed   Group,   Inc.,  129  F.3d  391  (7th  Cir.  1997);  Mechnig  v.  Sears,  Roebuck  &   Co.,  864  F.2d  1359  (7th  Cir.  1988);  and  La  Montagne  v.  Ameri-­‐‑ can  Convenience  Products,  Inc.,  750  F.2d  1405  (7th  Cir.  1984),  to   the  extent  that  these  opinions  insist  on  the  use  of  the  direct-­‐‑ and-­‐‑indirect   framework.
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