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Blair v. Henry Filters, Inc.

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled in part
Court
Sixth Circuit
Citation
505 F.3d 517
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
43 of 43
Citing cases (total)
43
Treatment dates
2009
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Blair v. Henry Filters, Inc. was overruled in part. All 43 flagged citations have been read.
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The one confirmed treatment, listed below, ended Blair's federal ADEA rule shifting the burden of persuasion to employers. The Sixth Circuit recognized this effect in Geiger v. Tower Automotive.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

43 later cases cite Blair v. Henry Filters, Inc.; 43 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court held that the burden of persuasion stays with ADEA plaintiffs, displacing Blair's contrary federal rule.

    Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    The burden of persuasion does not shift to the employer to show that it would have taken the action regardless of age, even when a plaintiff has produced some evidence that age was one motivating factor in that decision.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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