Reginald Jones v. UPS Group Freight

How courts have described this case

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• holding that jury could find “physically threatening” that two co-workers approached the plaintiff at night with a crowbar to ask if the plaintiff had reported other acts of racial harassment
• concluding that conduct was physically threatening when the plaintiff was approached by two employees wearing confederate flag clothing at night with an object that “could be perceived as a weapon”
• stating that “only conduct that is ‘based on’ a protected category, such as race, may be considered in a hostile work environment analysis”
• observing that the plaintiff was approached by two co-workers, “at night,” one of whom was wielding “an object that could be perceived as a weapon”
• adopting in a racial context the language of Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Servs., Inc., 523 U.S. 75, 81 (1998)
• “The general rule is that inadmissible hearsay cannot be considered on a motion for summary judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).