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· 3/15/1999

Katie R. HARDIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC., Defendant-Appellee

Citations

  • 167 F.3d 340
  • 1999 WL 36035

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that plaintiff was not singled out for abusive treatment because alleged harasser \was a crude individual who treated all of his coworkers poorly\
  • holding that a manager’s use of coarse language and manager’s cutting employee off in the parking lot were not inherently race-based on the record presented
  • finding that coarse language and comments that did not “implicate negative attitudes toward African-Americans .... cannot be said with any degree of certainty” to possess a discriminatory character so as to establish a hostile work environment
  • upholding summary judgment for the defendant in part because the plaintiff “was not singled out”
  • doubting the admissibility \of odious statements\ plaintiff never heard to show racial motive
  • affirming dismissal of the plaintiffs sex and race based hostile work environment claims where su pervisor’s conduct not directed at plaintiff because of her race or sex

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Judges: Flaum, Easterbrook, Wood

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