United States Ninth Circuit

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 imposes no special or heightened evidentiary burden (i.e. direct evidence) on a plaintiff employee in a so-called "mixed-motive" termination case.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/21/2002
• Decided 08/02/2002
• Published 08/02/2002

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, REINHARDT, KOZINSKI, FERNANDEZ, KLEINFELD, SILVERMAN, GRABER, McKEOWN, FISHER, GOULD, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert N. Peccole, Peccole & Peccole, Ltd., Las Vegas, NV, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark J. Ricciardi,David B. Dornak, Michael J. Shannon, Ricciardi Law Group, Las Vegas, NV, for defendant-appellant.