pretext
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Definitions from Case Law
From 509 U.S. 502 - St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · 1993Most cited · 16,665 citing opinions
pretext for discrimination," we think the sentence must be understood as addressing the form rather than the substance of the defendant's production burden: The requirement that the employer "clearly set forth" its reasons, "id.," at 255, 101 S.Ct., at 1094, gives the plaintiff a "full and fair" rebuttal opportunity.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pretext” — 16,639 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1993–1993
the pretext required earlier in the opinion, "viz.," "pretext for the sort of discrimination prohibited by [Title VII]," 411 U.S., at 804, 93 S.Ct., at 1825.