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  "testDate": "2026-10-06",
  "testTimezone": "America/Chicago",
  "statusAtFreeze": "NOT RUN",
  "case": "Mahan v. Marion Police Pension Board, 2026 IL App (5th) 260066",
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  "configurationNote": "Delegated agents inherit the same parent configuration; authoritative model alias, effort, immutable snapshot, temperature and seed are not exposed to the preparing agents. Do not infer model from the earlier October 3 test.",
  "environment": "Codex desktop fresh-context delegated workspace agents, fork_turns=none. Inherited platform instructions/tools remain present. Only supplied public opinion and exact prompt intentionally passed.",
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  "selection": "One planned response per condition, all retained verbatim. No quality retries; interrupted or failed attempt logs retained and technical restarts disclosed.",
  "rubric": [
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      "id": "posture",
      "criterion": "Correctly identifies the Fifth District reversal of the Board termination; preserves two grounds (manifest weight and due process), and distinguishes September 2 order from October 6 publication if dates appear.",
      "source": "Caption; ¶¶1, 40–43, 63–64"
    },
    {
      "id": "recovery",
      "criterion": "Distinguishes recovery from the accepted original disability from disagreement with the original diagnosis; attributes the criticism to the appellate court.",
      "source": "¶¶45–46"
    },
    {
      "id": "incorporated-requirements",
      "criterion": "Explains that reading the job description did not supply the referenced actual physical requirements and that Sampat did not know them.",
      "source": "¶¶34, 47–53"
    },
    {
      "id": "contrary-medical-evidence",
      "criterion": "Treats the 2018 FCE full effort, medium capacity and heavy job demands as adverse evidence; preserves the contrary 2024 effort/Waddell evidence without diagnosing from it independently.",
      "source": "¶¶31–36, 44, 52–53"
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    {
      "id": "tribunal",
      "criterion": "Separately addresses impartiality, members’ assurances, contextual prior remarks and the court’s finding of prejudgment; does not treat assurances as dispositive.",
      "source": "¶¶4–15, 54–61"
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      "id": "defense",
      "criterion": "Identifies support for the Board (administrative deference, Sampat/current evaluation, challenged FCE effort, and/or impartiality presumption) with attribution and acknowledges the court rejected the ultimate defense.",
      "source": "¶¶27–34, 39, 43–44, 54–61"
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      "criterion": "Distinguishes follow-up record/source checks from facts already established by the opinion; avoids suggesting a document review alone automatically cures evidence or impartiality defects.",
      "source": "¶¶34, 46–53, 55–61; source limits"
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  "lawyerReviewStatus": "Pending; no completed human legal review claimed",
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    "The same inherited agent configuration is used but immutable model identity and settings are not independently verifiable.",
    "The outcome and judicial reasoning are supplied; this is not prediction or independent legal research.",
    "Prompts themselves request candor, adverse evidence and source citations; no conclusion about an unguarded prompt follows.",
    "Task framing intentionally differs, so output differences do not establish sycophancy or a causal prompt effect.",
    "No accuracy rate, ranking, general reliability, legal validation, cost or productivity claim.",
    "Raw text and metadata record outputs and reported access; these are not a complete audited execution trace.",
    "Full inherited platform instructions are not exportable; the exact supplied task and administration are retained."
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