Perkins v. Lake County Department of Utilities

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• enumerating physical appearance, language, cultural activities, and associations as objective factors, any or all of which would “lead the employer to believe that a given employee is a member of that protected class, and to deal with him/her on that basis.”
• A[C]onsistent with the intent of Title VII, when racial discrimination is involved perception and appearance are everything. As with the joy of beauty, the ugliness of bias can be in the eye of the beholder.@

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