To demonstrate discrimination, an employee must conform under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Cundiff, & Chaitovitz, 1994). of Community Affairs v. Burdine, 450 U.S. 248, 252-253, 1 . 92-602. St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, 509 U.S. at 511; Anderson v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., 13 F.3d 1120, 1123 (7th Cir. persuasion. § 1983 by demoting and discharging him because of his race. Pp. 4. 2-9. Oral Argument - April 20, 1993; Opinions. Spectators are warned and admonished not to talk until you get out of the courtroom. St. Mary's Honor Center is a halfway house operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections and Human Resources. Nor may the Court substitute for that required [3], The Supreme Court held, five judges to four, that Hicks' case failed to discharge the burden of proof. 2. The St. Mary’s Center v. Hicks case created national storm after the Supreme Court decision that an employee must provide evidence and prove discrimination in the workplace. 2742, 125 L.Ed.2d 407 (1993), rev'g and remanding, 970 F.2d 487 (8th Cir.1992), rev'g 756 F.Supp. NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is Compelling judgment for Hicks would See generally Lanctot, The Defendant Lies and the Plaintiff Loses: The Fallacy of the "Pretext-Plus" Rule in Employment Discrimination Cases, 43 Hastings L.J. Lower court United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit . Syllabus ; View Case ; Petitioner St. Mary's Honor Center et al. that the basis for [the] discriminatory treatment was race ") (emphasis in original). Pp. St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks 113 S. Ct. 2742 (1993) Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. Mr. Hicks was contracted as a prison guard at the institution August 1978 and was elevated to the position of supervisor in 1980. 92–602. Respondent Melvin Hicks, a black man, was hired as a correctional officer at St. Mary's in August 1978 and was promoted to shift commander, one of six supervisory positions, in February 1980. The District Court's rejection of the employer's asserted reasons for its actions did not mandate a finding for the employee, because. Opinion for Hicks v. St. Mary's Honor Center, 756 F. Supp. And yet, under the majority's scheme, a victim of discrimination lacking direct evidence will now be saddled with the tremendous disadvantage of having to confront, not the defined task of proving the employer's stated reasons to be false, but the amorphous requirement of disproving all possible nondiscriminatory reasons that a factfinder might find lurking in the record. v. HICKS certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the eighth circuit. Under the majority's scheme, once the employer succeeds in meeting its burden of production, "the McDonnell Douglas framework . Discrediting the reasons offered by the employer for its decision no longer suffices to establish a violation of Title VII. . St. Mary's Honor Center V. Melvin Hicks (Docket No. We’ll hear argument next in No. 1244 (E.D.Mo.1991). 1992), rev'g 756 F. Supp. St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, 509 U.S. at 511; Anderson v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., 13 F.3d 1120, 1123 (7th Cir. St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks, 1 the United States Supreme Court revisited its landmark 1973 decision, McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green. St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks: The Title VII Shifting Burden Stays Put [T]he question facing triers of fact in discrimination cases is both sensitive and difficult. at 1250. . Mo. Adhering to the petitioners' proffered reasons were pretextual. had been taken because of his race in violation of, inter alia, Due to the complaints of the condition of the facility by the state and inmates, Saint Mary's conducted an undercover investigation (Cundiff, & Chaitovitz, 1994). Mr. Gardner. Evid. v. Hicks, 509 U.S. 502 (1993). officer and later a shift commander. This Note examines the St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks decision and its likely effects on future Title VII disparate treatment claims. Decided . Oral Argument - April 20, 1993; Opinions. 1287 (1996). 301, the ultimate burden of persuasion remained at all times 92-602. A. SCHUMAN* The Supreme Court's decision in St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks. 1 . The Demise of Circumstantial Proof in Employment Discrimination Litigation: St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, Pretext, and the 'Personality' Excuse January 1997 Hicks filed this suit against defendants in federal district court, alleging St. Mary's had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. Ante, at ____ (emphasis omitted). The Seventh Circuit has held in one case that where the defendant asserts several reasons for its decision, the plaintiff may not normally survive summary judgment by refuting only one of the reasons. Saint Mary's Center is a correctional facility. Oral Argument - April 20, 1993. Three years later a state mandated examination was conducted which brought about broad authoritative modifications the following year. [1] He brought an action, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Petitioner St. Mary=E2=80=99s Honor Center (St. Mary=E2=80=99s) is a hal= fway house operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections and Human Res= ources (MDCHR). disregard the fundamental principle of Rule 301 that a presumption It at 2756. Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Thomas, Souter, joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 20:09. In St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, a closely-divided Supreme Court substantially altered the McDonnell Douglas framework. St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, 509 U.S. 502 (1993), was a US labor law case before the United States Supreme Court on the burden of proof and the relevance of intent for race discrimination. . St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, --- U.S. ----, 113 S. Ct. 2742, 125 L. Ed. Argued April 20, 1993—Decided June 25, 1993 Petitioner halfway house employed respondent Hicks as a correctional of-ficer and later a shift commander. Oral Argument - April 20, 1993; Opinions. 92-602 . 2-22. factfinder determines that the employer has unlawfully Aikens, 460 U.S. 711, 714. v. Hicks, 113 S. Ct. 2742, 2757 (1993) (Souter, J., dissenting) (stating that "[tihe language of Title VII . Melvin Hicks appeals from a final judgment entered in the United States District Court 1 for the Eastern District of Missouri in favor of his former employer, St. Mary's Honor Center (St. Mary's), and the superintendent of St. Mary's, Steve Long (together defendants), on his claims arising under Title VII and the equal protection clause. petitioners in the same position as if they had remained silent in the St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks: Has the Supreme Court Turned Its Back on Title VII by Rejecting Pretext-Only Louis M. Rappaport Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, and the Labor and Employment Law Commons § 2000e, and Long had violated 42 U.S.C. Rather, plaintiffs must somehow prove that the pretext was offered to hide discrimination, and not for some other motivation. Carter v. Duncan-Huggins, Ltd., 234 U.S.App.D.C. The Court thus transforms the employer's burden of production from a device used to provide notice and promote fairness into a misleading and potentially useless ritual. 2. explanation is alone enough to sustain a plaintiff's case was After being demoted and St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks = St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks= 113 S. Ct. 2742 (1993) Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. v. Hicks, 113 S. Ct. 2742, 2745 (1993). He said the following: The Court today decides to abandon the settled law that sets out this structure for trying disparate-treatment Title VII cases, only to adopt a scheme that will be unfair to plaintiffs, unworkable in practice, and inexplicable in forgiving employers who present false evidence in court. 92-602 . Id. St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks, 509 U.S. 502 (1993) The Defendant was a halfway house that employed the Plaintiff, Hicks, as a correctional officer. 92–602. employer's explanation of its action was not believable. Souter J dissented (joined by White, Blackmun, and Stevens), arguing an employer would be better off presenting an untruthful explanation of its actions than presenting none at all. Decided by Rehnquist Court . In St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, a closely-divided Supreme Court substantially altered the McDonnell Douglas framework. BACKGROUND A. finding the much different and much lesser finding that the 1994). Id., at 258, 101 S.Ct., at 1096 (internal quotation marks omitted); see id., at 256, 101 S.Ct., at 1095 (the plaintiff "must have the opportunity to demonstrate" pretext); Aikens, supra, at 716, n. 5, 103 S.Ct., at 1482; Furnco, 438 U.S., at 578, 98 S.Ct., at 2950; McDonnell Douglas, 411 U.S., at 805, 93 S.Ct., at 1825-1826. Hicks had proven that petitioners intentionally discriminated against aside this determination, the Court of Appeals held that Hicks was Petitioner St. Mary’s Honor Center (St. Mary’s) is a halfway house operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections and Human Resources (MDCHR). Melvin Hicks was hired as a correctional officer at St. Mary's in August 1978 and was promoted to a supervisory position, shift commander, in February 1980. DuPont de Nemours and Co. ultimately discharged, Hicks filed suit, alleging that these actions While the Court appears to acknowledge that a plaintiff will have the task of disproving even vaguely suggested reasons, and while it recognizes the need for "[c]larity regarding the requisite elements of proof," ante, at ____, it nonetheless gives conflicting signals about the scope of its holding in this case. Melvin Hicks appeals from a final judgment entered in the United States District Court1 for the Eastern District of Missouri in favor of his former employer, St. Mary's Honor Center (St. Mary's), and the superintendent of St. Mary's, Steve Long (together defendants), on his claims arising under Title VII and the equal protection clause. The majority's scheme greatly disfavors Title VII plaintiffs without the good luck to have direct evidence of discriminatory intent. Audio Transcription for Oral Argument - April 20, 1993 in St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks Gary L. Gardner:--If we can distinguish in the steps of the case. the District Court found that Hicks had established, by a Any doubt 2 McDonnell Douglas established a tripartite burden-shifting analysis for proving intentional discrimination by the employer, that is, for proving disparate treatment, in those cases where no direct evidence of liability is available. Docket no. St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, ___ U.S. ___, 113 S.Ct. Petitioner, St. Mary's Honor Center ("St. Mary's"), a halfway house operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections and Hu-man Resources ("MDCHR"), employed Melvin Hicks, a black man, as a correctional officer.2 Hicks was hired in August 1978 and pro-moted to the supervisory position of shift commander in February 1980, but was demoted and discharged from this position in 1984.'" ST. MARY'S HONOR CENTER v. HICKS AND THE BURDENS OF PROOF IN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CASES. discrimination; that petitioners had rebutted that presumption by 1996] EMPLOYMENT lAW-RAMIFICATIONS OF Sr. M4Ry:S HONOR CENTER v..HICKS: THE THIRD CIRCUIT' S REVIVAL OF THE "PRETEXT-ONLY" STANDARD AT SUMMARY JUDGMENT Sheridan v. E.I. Mr. Hicks was contracted as a prison guard at the institution August 1978 and was elevated to the position of supervisor in 1980. filed a dissenting opinion, in which White, Blackmun, and Stevens, Advocates. of fact was required to decide the ultimate question of fact: whether Mary's Honor Ctr. 1991). He would have held that in Title VII employment discrimination cases, proof of a prima facie case not only raised an inference of discrimination, but also, in the absence of further evidence, created a mandatory presumption in favor of the plaintiff. Media. The Court remains in session. This "pretext-plus" approach would turn Burdine on its head, see n. 7, supra, and it would result in summary judgment for the employer in the many cases where the plaintiff has no evidence beyond that required to prove a prima facie case and to show that the employer's articulated reasons are unworthy of credence. 1244 (E.D.Mo.1991). St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks, 1 the United States Supreme Court revisited its landmark 1973 decision, McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green. 1997). Discrediting the reasons offered by the employer for its decision no longer suffices to establish a violation of Title VII. 83 The two reasons offered by St. Mary's for Hicks's termination were "the severity and the accumulation of violations committed by plaintiff." - Description: U.S. Reports Volume 509; October Term, 1992; St. Mary's Honor Center et al. Oral Argument - April 20, 1993; Opinions. In Latin, prima facie means “at first sight” or “at first view”. rebutted the presumption of intentional discrimination. Jun 25, 1993. For the reasons discussed below, we remand the case to the district court for further consideration in light of the Supreme Court's opinion. 1244 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. Scalia, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, Mo. Decided by Rehnquist Court . The decision de- Whereas we said in Burdine that if the employer carries its burden of production, "the factual inquiry proceeds to a new level of specificity," 450 U.S., at 255, 101 S.Ct., at 1095, the Court now holds that the further enquiry is wide open, not limited at all by the scope of the employer's proffered explanation.10 Despite the Court's assiduous effort to reinterpret our precedents, it remains clear that today's decision stems from a flat misreading of Burdine and ignores the central purpose of the McDonnell Douglas framework, which is "progressively to sharpen the inquiry into the elusive factual question of intentional discrimination." The Note begins with a brief review of the case law governing the burden of proof and then outlines the facts and procedural history of the Hicks case, including both the majority and dissenting opinions. Opinion for Hicks v. St. Mary's Honor Center, 756 F. Supp. 126, 146, 727 F.2d 1225, 1245 (1984) (Scalia, J., dissenting) ("[I]n order to get to the jury the plaintiff would . The Seventh Circuit has held in one case that where the defendant asserts several reasons for its decision, the plaintiff may not normally survive summary judgment by refuting only one of the reasons. No. 17-22. makes plain the purpose of Congress to assure equality of employment opportunities and to eliminate those discriminatory practices Media. The Note begins with a brief review of the case law governing the burden of proof and then outlines the facts and procedural history of the Hicks case, including both the majority and dissenting opinions. employer for alleged discriminatory employment practices unless the Lower court United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit . . . For the majority, Scalia J held (joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, and Thomas) even if a plaintiff discredits an employer’s explanation, the employer can still win if the trier of fact concludes there was no discriminatory intent. was established in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, The Supreme Court's decision in St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks. U.S. Reports: St. Mary's Honor Ctr. to disbelieve the employer." The prohibitions against discrimi-nation contained in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reflect an important national policy. Held: The trier of fact's rejection of an employer's asserted reasons for 92-602. v. HICKS certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the eighth circuit No. (c) The concerns of the dissent and respondent that this decision ST. MARY’S HONOR CENTER et al. 1991). Prima Facie is a legal claim that has sufficient evidence to proceed to trial or judgment. 1244, 1252 (E.D. St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks. Audio Transcription for Oral Argument – April 20, 1993 in St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks William H. Rehnquist: We’ll hear argument next in No. The majority fails to explain how the plaintiff, under its scheme, will ever have a "full and fair opportunity" to demonstrate that reasons not articulated by the employer, but discerned in the record by the factfinder, are also unworthy of credence. 1244 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. Hicks v. St. Mary's Honor Ctr., Citation 509 US 502 (1993) Argued. Lower court United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit . Lower court United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit . Coco v. 3. Hicks v. St. Mary's Honor Ctr., No. Hicks, who was a black employee of St Mary's Honor Center, a halfway house operated by the Missouri department of corrections and human resources, claimed race discrimination when he was demoted and discharged under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 §2000e-2(a)(1). Respondent Hicks . Petitioner halfway house employed respondent Hicks as a correctional Apr 20, 1993. For the reasons discussed below, we remand the case to the district court for further consideration in light of the Supreme Court's opinion. of Governors v. For the reasons discussed below, we remand the case to the district court for further consideration in light of the Supreme Court's opinion. St. Mary's Honor Center is a halfway house operated by the Missouri Department of Corrections and Human Resources. Argued April 20, 1993 -- Decided June 25, 1993. 1994). being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. St. Mary’s Honor Center v. Hicks The St. Mary’s Center v. Hicks case created national storm after the Supreme Court decision that an employee must provide evidence and prove discrimination in the workplace. Melvin Hicks was hired as a correctional officer at St. Mary's in August 1978 and was promoted to a supervisory position, shift commander, in February 1980. But other language in the Court's opinion supports a more extreme conclusion, that proof of the falsity of the employer's articulated reasons will not even be sufficient to sustain judgment for the plaintiff. 92-602 . 2d 407 (1993), rev'g and remanding, 970 F.2d 487 (8th Cir. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been We’ll hear argument next in No. Respondent Hicks . Ante, at ____ (emphasis in original). was one of the most controversial decisions the Court handed down in a largely low-key 1992-93 term. St. Mary's Honor Ctr. Citation 509 US 502 (1993) Argued. 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