Garfield Electric Co.
3 Cited authorities
Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Transportation Management Corp.
462 U.S. 393 (1983) Cited 652 times 11 Legal AnalysesHolding 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."
N.L.R.B. v. Wright Line, a Div. of Wright Line, Inc.
662 F.2d 899 (1st Cir. 1981) Cited 357 times 46 Legal AnalysesHolding that the "but for" test applied in a "mixed motive" case under the National Labor Relations Act
Siwik v. Marshall Field Company
945 F. Supp. 1158 (N.D. Ill. 1996) Cited 7 timesHolding that statement by decisionmaker that employee was fired because he was over 40 years old was the "proverbial `smoking gun'" needed in the mixed motive analysis