462 U.S. 393 (1983) Cited 657 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."
Imputing supervisor's knowledge of employee's union activities to company where supervisor had anti-union animus, but acknowledging that decision-maker admitted he probably knew of employee's union activities