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."
Affirming the National Labor Relations Board ("N.L.R.B.") finding that ownership and management of first company, a two-man partnership, was substantially identical to that of second company, a sole proprietorship