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."
Holding that a company did not have to honor an information request because "the union's predominant purpose in making its request was to harass the employers and force them to cease a practice permitted under the collective bargaining agreement"
Rejecting Board's effort to "evade" credibility-based assessment of whether union's request for information as to Company's hiring and subcontracting practices was made in good faith or to harass Company in retaliation for suit against union