Kenneth M. Shanoff v. State of Illinois Department of Human Services

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• finding that courts should also examine behavior engaged in with the purpose of discriminating based on a protected class when assessing a hostile work environment claim
• holding actions or remarks that do not have an apparent unlawful animus may be sufficiently intertwined with discriminatory remarks or acts to conclude a discriminatory animus
• noting that equitable estoppel only applies when the defendant “takes active steps to prevent the plaintiff from suing in time,” such as “hiding evidence or promising not to plead the statute of limitations”
• finding an objectively hostile work environment where employee was subjected to six “rather severe” instances of harassment in a four month period, including three remarks (one each month) such as “I hate everything you are,” and “I know how to put you Jews in your place”
• \The continuing violation doctrine allows a plaintiff to get relief for time-barred acts by linking them with acts within the limitations period.\
• “The continuing violation doctrine allows a plaintiff to get relief for time‐barred acts by linking them with acts within the limitations period.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).