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 significant the fact that a nurse "cannot cause a nurse's aide to be fired by giving her a poor evaluation or cause her to be promoted by giving her a superlative evaluation"
Finding workers to be supervisors even though their tasks and responsibilities were governed "to a great extent" by federal guidelines and company policies
Upholding Board finding of concerted activity where, after discussing working conditions extensively with other employees, employee wrote letter to newspaper complaining of work conditions and citing complaints of fellow workers, and subsequently over one hundred employees corroborated employee's complaints and joined employee's petition to management