· 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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