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Labor/Employment

Aug. 8, 2000

Quantum Question

Reeves has settled the circuit split on a discrimination plaintiff's burden of proof, endorsing a common-sense approach instead of a categorical legal test. By Barri Friedland and Julie Arbuckle.


By Barri Friedland and Julie Arbuckle
        
        On June 12, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Prods. Inc., 120 S.Ct. 2097 (2000), a decision that raises significant issues concerning an employment-discrimination plaintiff's burden of proo...

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