Lawton v. State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of America

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• noting that systemic violation has its roots in discriminatory policy or practice, and, so long as policy or practice itself continues into limitation period, challenger may be deemed to have filed timely complaint under continuing violation theory
• counseling appellate courts not to wax longiloquent when a trial court has resolved a claim correctly and explained its rationale in a well-reasoned rescript
• counseling appellate courts not to wax longiloquent when a trial court has resolved a claim correctly and explained its rationale in a well-reasoned rescript
• “Common sense teaches that a plaintiff cannot resuscitate time-barred acts, said to be discriminatory, by the simple expedient of linking them to a nonidentical, non-diseriminatory, non-time barred act.”
• Plaintiffs firing, which was not traceable to a discriminatory animus, could not be used as an anchor to link time-barred discriminatory acts
• \No precept is more firmly settled in this circuit than that theories not squarely raised and seasonably propounded before the trial court cannot rewardingly be advanced on appeal.\

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