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."
Upholding Section 8 violations, under Birch Run's general layoff theory, where three union supporters and nine other employees were discharged over a seven month period
Upholding the Board's finding that a hospital changed solicitation rules in order to “squelch union activity” when it suddenly began to prohibit outside groups from meeting in the cafeteria
Finding employer's claim that it fired employee due to job abandonment to be a pretext because employer knew that employee had filed for unemployment benefits and was under the impression that he had already been terminated and yet the company did nothing to correct the employee's alleged misimpression