Looking into the “confusing” and “mischievous” nature of the cat’s paw doctrine — in a retaliation case where a hospital argued a judge erred in giving a cat’s paw instruction because the alleged manipulators were the plaintiff’s co-workers — the Oregon Court of Appeals noted that former 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner, who was the first to use Aesop’s fable about a clever monkey in an employment case, later “referred to the metaphor as a ‘judicial attractive nuisance.’” Denese Crosbie, a nurse at …