Danco, Inc. And Benjamin Guiliani, Appellees/cross-Appellants v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Appellant/cross-Appellee

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• noting that the requirements of the plain error rule are applied “even more stringently” in civil cases
• allowing contracting party’s section 1981 claim to proceed but dismissing the contracting party’s owner’s claim
• “Nothing in section 1981 provides a personal claim, so far as its language is concerned, to one who is merely affiliated—as an owner or employee—with a contracting party that is discriminated against by the company that made the contract.”
• “One could say that avoiding a hostile work environment is an implicit contractual benefit or term . . . .”
• Plaintiff must show “that the conduct had the purpose or effect of interfering with the plaintiffs work performance or created an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.”

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