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."
Holding that "plaintiffs are entitled to introduce the prior judgment to establish prima facie all matters of fact and law necessarily decided by the conviction and the verdict on which it was based"
In NLRB v. Golden Age Beverage Company, 415 F.2d 26, 30 (5th Cir. 1969), this court apparently considered hearsay evidence at this stage of proceedings to set aside an election.
Holding that district courts cannot place conditions on enforcement of a summons, but must simply decide "whether to enforce or not to enforce the summons"
Stating that the NLRB "properly refused to invalidate the election or to hold a hearing on the allegations" of election abuses where "[t]he only evidence proffered by [employer] was an affidavit of its Vice President to the effect that `union people' told several employees `that it would pay to support the Union'"