Carole WATSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONWIDE INSURANCE CO., Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that, to establish a claim of constructive discharge, \the plaintiff need not show that the employer subjectively intended to force the employee to resign\
• noting that constructive discharge is found where a working environment is “so intolerable and discriminatory as to justify a reasonable employee’s decision [to leave]”
• following interracial marriage plaintiff was written up for a violation when other similarly situated employees were not, received negative performance reviews for first time and supervisor called her a derogatory name and threatened her with a demotion if she did not resign
• constructive discharge is found where a working environment is “so intolerable and 12 discriminatory as to justify a reasonable employee’s decision [to leave]”
• “[I]n general, a single isolated instance of employment discrimination is insufficient as a matter of law to support a finding of constructive discharge.”

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