Darrel Smith v. Denise Bray
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The Seventh Circuit rejected Smith's use of “convincing mosaic” as a governing legal standard; later opinions continue to cite its separate individual liability and cat's paw holdings.
44 later cases cite Darrel Smith v. Denise Bray; 44 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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The Seventh Circuit overruled Smith's treatment of “convincing mosaic” as a governing legal standard.
Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises, Inc. · Seventh Circuit · filed
To make matters worse, this court has itself occasionally treated “convincing mosaic” as a legal requirement ... Smith v. Bray, 681 F.3d 888, 901 (7th Cir. 2012); ... 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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