Proof of workplace discrimination
Wilson v. AIM Specialty Health
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Kellie Wilson’s petition asks the Supreme Court to review her employment-discrimination case against AIM Specialty Health and to discard the McDonnell Douglas test or change its final step, which concerns whether a worker must disprove the employer’s stated reason for an adverse job action.
- What's at stake
- Wilson’s challenge and her employment dispute with AIM remain unresolved; the Supreme Court has not ruled on her claims.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
She argues that Title VII requires proof that discrimination was a cause without which the action would not have happened.
Wilson argues Title VII requires a worker to show the job action would not have happened without discrimination, rather than disprove the employer’s stated reason at the last step of the McDonnell Douglas test for employment-discrimination cases.
Question presented
1. Whether this Court should overrule McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973). 2. Whether step three of McDonnell Douglas should require a plaintiff to disprove the employer’s proffered reasoned for an adverse employment action, when the plain language of Title VII merely requires a plaintiff to establish but-for causation.
What happens next
The Court’s next step is to decide whether to hear the petition. No oral argument or decision window is set before the Court agrees to hear it.
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