Hill v. BCTI Income Fund-I

— We are asked to clarify the evidentiary standard that a plaintiff with a chapter 49.60 RCW employment discrimination claim must meet to survive a motion for judgment as a matter of law. The Court of Appeals adopted the so-called “pretext-plus” standard, which was recently rejected by the United States Supreme Court in Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc., 530 U.S. 133, 120 S. Ct. 2097, 147 L. Ed. 2d 105 (2000). We, too, reject the pretext-plus standard and thus vacate the Court of Appeals’ opinion. We affirm its rulings in this case on different grounds.

FACTS

In August 1993, Randy…