Age discrimination burden of proof ruling [US SC]
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Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., US Supreme Court, June 18, 2009 [holding that the burden is on the plaintiff to prove that age was the determining factor in an age discrimination in employment suit and that a mixed-motive jury instruction is never appropriate in such a case]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.
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