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· 7/10/1991

Dickerson v. New Jersey, Department of Human Services

Citations

  • 767 F. Supp. 605
  • 33 Fed. R. Serv. 861
  • 1991 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9500
  • 68 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 831
  • 1991 WL 125134

How courts have described this case

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  • observing that “[t]he mere mention of the KKK” to an African-American employee “invokes a long and violent history sufficient to detrimentally affect any reasonable person” in the plaintiff’s position
  • stating that standard is a reasonable person of plaintiff's race
  • “[I]n order to establish a hostile atmosphere, a plaintiff must prove more than a few isolated incidents of racial enmity.”

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Judges: Brown

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