Ida Mary Lewis v. University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Book Center

This appeal starkly demonstrates the need to reaffirm the fundamental policy behind statutory protections against employment discrimination.

In the case before us, the trial court misconceived the substantive rights protected by the antidiscrimination statutes, as well as the evidentiary burden — both intermediate and ultimate — allocated to a plaintiff by McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792, 93 S.Ct. 1817, 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973). Thus while I agree with the majority that all three statutory claims in this proceeding are governed by the same legal standards, and while I also agree…