Estate of Margaret Ballenger Cluck v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a reasonable jury could find the alleged harassment unwelcome because the plaintiff “complained to managers . . . about racial language and jokes in the workplace”
• holding that the work environment was objectively hostile where co- employees frequently used racial slurs including the N-word and the plaintiff’s fellow supervisors used the N-word on more than one occasion
• noting that employee established workplace was hostile when \he was repeatedly subjected to hearing the word 'nigger'\
• noting that the subjective element could be proven through evidence of objections or complaints to supervisors
• noting that evidence that the harassment was unwelcome—in the form of objections to supervisors—satisfied the subjective element
• collecting cases stressing the harmful effects of the use of the word “nigger” in the workplace

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).