James WILLIAMS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, Jeannine Pirro and Carl A. Vergari, Defendants-Appellees

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• holding that an employee's \generalized feelings of discomfort fell well short of the proof required to show a hostile work environment\
• explaining that when considering a motion for judgment as a matter of law, “the court may not itself weigh credibility or otherwise consider the weight of the evidence,” and that it must “defer to the credibility assessments that may have been made by the jury”
• finding no hostile work environment where “the proof at trial did not include the use of racial epithets or racially derogatory comments either directed at plaintiff or widely used in the workplace.”
• plaintiffs subjective feeling of uncomfortableness about his work environment insufficient to create hostile work environment
• subjective feelings of discomfort are insufficient to make out a claim of a racially hostile work environment

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