1977 U.S. Supreme Court case establishing mixed-motive test
Mt.
Healthy City School District Board of Education v.
Doyle, 429 U.S. 274 (1977), often shortened to Mt.
Healthy v.
Doyle, was a unanimous U.S.
Supreme Court decision arising from a fired teacher's lawsuit against his former employer, the Mount Healthy City Schools.
The Court considered three issues: whether federal-question jurisdiction existed in the case, whether the Eleventh Amendment barred federal lawsuits against school districts, and whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments prevented the district, as a government agency, from firing or otherwise disciplining an employee for constitutionally protected speech on a matter of public concern where the same action might have taken place for other, unprotected activities.
Justice William Rehnquist wrote the opinion.
The Supporting Healthy Marriage Project (SHM) is part of the Healthy Marriage Initiative funded by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, that was launched in 2003 as the first large-scale, multisite, multiyear, rigorous test of marriage education programs for low-income married couples.
The project is motivated by research that indicates that married adults and children raised by both parents in stable, low-conflict households do better on a host of outcomes.
The evaluation is led by MDRC, in collaboration with Abt Associates and other partners.
USASpending.gov reports payments of more than $30 million from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services to MDRC for work on the Supporting Healthy Marriage Project from 2009 to 2012.
