Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
What the Court Decided
The Supreme Court held that when both permissible and impermissible motivations underlie a government employment decision, the government bears the burden of showing it would have taken the same action absent the impermissible motive.
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Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation
2025 Term · 24-1021
NJ Transit relied on this case as establishing the multifactor, substance-based framework for determining whether an entity is an arm of the state, which it argues should govern here.
TikTok, Inc. v. Garland
2024 Term · 24-656
Cited by TikTok for the mixed-motive framework: when a government action is motivated in part by an impermissible reason (targeting content), the permissible rationale (data security) cannot independently sustain the law without showing the action would have been taken for that reason alone.