Holding: Employee retaliation claims filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 must be proved according to traditional principles of but-for causation, not the lessened causation test stated in the 42 U.S.C. § 2000e–2(m).
Judgment: Vacated and remanded, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Kennedy on June 24, 2013. Justice Ginsburg filed a dissenting opinion in which Justice Breyer, Justice Sotomayor, and Justice Kagan joined.
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