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· 7/1/2015

Renee Pryor v. United Air Lines, Inc.

Citations

  • 791 F.3d 488
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 11317
  • 99 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 45,347
  • 127 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 801
  • 2015 WL 3973562

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that “the effectiveness of an employer’s actions remains a factor in evaluating the reasonableness of the response”
  • recognizing that “the effectiveness of an employer’s actions remains a factor in evaluating the reasonableness of the response”
  • finding that racist death threats alone were sufficiently severe as to alter the conditions of the plaintiff's employment and create a hostile work environment
  • finding that “a reasonable jury could property construe . . . racially-tinged death threats so severe that it does matter that they were not pervasive”
  • outlining circumstances under which harassing conduct by coworkers may be imputed to employer
  • “An employer is not subject to a lesser standard simply because an anonymous actor is responsible for the [racist] conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Motz, Gregory, Davis

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