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Laura Phelan v. Cook County

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Overruled in part
Court
Seventh Circuit
Citation
463 F.3d 773
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
29 of 29
Citing cases (total)
29
Treatment dates
2016
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Laura Phelan v. Cook County was overruled in part on its use of “convincing mosaic” as a governing employment discrimination standard. All 29 flagged citations have been read; the confirmed treatment is listed below.
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Later courts continued to apply Phelan's separate holdings on reinstatement, harassment notice, and municipal liability.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

29 later cases cite Laura Phelan v. Cook County; 29 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 Phelan only to the extent it relied on “convincing mosaic” as a governing legal standard.

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

    Phelan v. Cook County, 463 F.3d 773, 779 (7th Cir. 2006); ... Today we reiterate that “convincing mosaic” is not a legal test. We overrule the opinions in the previous paragraph to the extent that they rely on “convincing mosaic” as a governing legal standard.
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