James E. Rodgers v. Western-Southern Life Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee

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• holding that a supervisor’s use of a racial epithet “impacts the work environment far more severely than use by co-equals”
• noting that racial epithets targeted at other employees were relevant to a plaintiff’s hostile-work-environment claim and considering racial statements made outside of the plaintiff’s presence
• stating that in reviewing hostile environment claim courts may consider \the lexicon of obscenity that pervaded the environ- ment of the workplace both before and after the plaintiff’s introduction to its environs\
• noting that, where the harasser is a superior, the plaintiff losses the opportunity to resort to her own supervisor to complain about invidious discrimination, and when the harasser is the employer, recourse to the employer is “fruitless”
• finding an actionable hostile work environment when supervisors and employees referred to plaintiff by the term \ni**er\ between five and ten times during his employment
• noting that the term “nigger” is an unambiguously racist epithet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).