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."
Finding that individual had supervisory assignment authority "because he would select the people necessary to do the work at the times he chose," thereby demonstrating that he exercised independent judgment