Card v. Sielaff

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kristin Booth Glen, J.

If a probationary public employee claims she was fired because of pregnancy discrimination, and her employer offers a legitimate nondiscriminatory basis for her termination, when is a hearing required, and what is the appropriate *240standard of review? The instant case presents this important question, apparently of first impression in New York. For the reasons discussed below I hold that the "mixed-motives” analysis of title VII of the Civil Rights Law of 1964 (42 USC § 2000e et seq.; (Title VII) adopted by the Supreme Court in Price Waterhouse v…