U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2016

The en banc court held that a jury could find that the prison doctors knew their treatment was inadequate and nevertheless disregarded the risk to Petties, based on circumstantial evidence and the context of their decisions.

The court reversed summary judgment on Ortiz’s discrimination claims because the district court improperly separated evidence into “direct” and “indirect” methods and required a “convincing mosaic,” rather than considering whether the evidence as a whole would permit a reasonable juror to find that ethnicity caused…