McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green

Established a burden-shifting framework for certain Title VII disparate-treatment cases based on circumstantial evidence.

Evidence ID
evidence:v724:92fc7f18b658dfa4d988
Issue
Women in Finance & Professional Services
Verification
VERIFIED_BOUNDED_EVIDENCE_PROPOSITION
Support direction
SUPPORTS
Publisher
Cornell Legal Information Institute; opinion authored by the U.S. Supreme Court
Jurisdiction
United States

Exact source

McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green

Scope and limitations

The framework is not the only proof method and must not be treated as a finding of discrimination in any occupation or employer.

Verification is bounded to the recorded proposition. It does not independently verify the complete issue or establish every relationship that might be plausible.

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Stable ID
canonical-route:/research/evidence/records/92fc7f18b658dfa4d988/
Record type
Analytical reader surface
Publication/readiness state
unknown — inspect the source-specific record
Model/method version
Preserved governed method; rendered through the v7.44 reader-first template
As-of/currentness date
Page projection 2026-08-30; source dates remain record-specific
Source uses
Record-specific source uses remain in the underlying governed artifact
Exact locators
Displayed only when supplied by the governed record; missing locators remain missing
Limitations
Route presence and computational output are not evidence; missingness remains explicit.
Counterevidence state
Not inferred; unknown or not evaluated remains explicit
Review/governance history
Deterministic release lineage; no human truth adjudication added
Correction path
Structured correction packet
Release provenance
Release 7.44 metadata