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."
In Florida Power Light Co. v. IBEW, Local 641, 417 U.S. 790, 804-05, 94 S.Ct. 2737, 2744-45, 41 L.Ed.2d 477 (1974), the Supreme Court held that no § 8(b)(1)(B) violation occurs unless the disciplined conduct adversely affects the performance of his or her § 8(b)(1)(B) duties.
Declining to enforce a Board order that "appear[ed] to be inconsistent with its precedents, without addressing those precedents or explaining why they do not govern"
Rejecting the Board's finding of unlawful surveillance when a supervisor briefly observed and followed an employee in a well-trafficked area during the supervisor's regular job duties