462 U.S. 393 (1983) Cited 652 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding that the employer bears the burden of negating causation in a mixed-motive discrimination case, noting "[i]t is fair that [the employer] bear the risk that the influence of legal and illegal motives cannot be separated."
Concluding employer entitled to judgment as matter of law where employee offered no evidence of number and types of positions available in local job market that did not require heavy or medium lifting
Noting that when, among other factors, a new negotiator was substituted, "the lack of a significant bargaining history would dictate giving the parties a fuller opportunity to effect an agreement than occurred here"