Ellis v. CCA OF TENNESSEE LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that use of the word “monkey” when referring to a particular book title did not evince racial hostility
• holding three isolated incidents that were not “extremely serious” did not support a hostile work environment claim
• finding two incidents of coworkers wearing confederate flag clothing and one coworker’s racially offensive statement not sufficiently serious to establish a hostile work environment
• reviewing “case-law guideposts,” which showed that plaintiffs’ “limited number of claims [of insensitive comments were] insufficiently severe to support a hostile work environment claim”
• “Establishing constructive discharge is more difficult than establishing a hostile work environment. The failure of the latter thus dooms the former.”
• single incident where coworkers wore shirts displaying confederate flags did not rise to level of an objectively hostile workplace

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