Thomas Woodland v. Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc.

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• holding that sporadic racially-motivated misconduct by coworkers, including racial epithets and graffiti, was ‘neither severe nor pervasive enough to create a hostile work environment’ where the employer took prompt and adequate remedial action in response to reported incidents
• finding three instances where the plaintiff heard that racial epithets had been used to 24 describe him, in addition to other “sporadic racially-motivated misconduct,” could not sustain a hostile work environment claim
• prompt response by supervisors in destroying racist graffiti a factor in finding materials did not amount to a severe or pervasive hostile work environment
• six racist comments, dissemination of racist and homophobic poem, and drawings of “KKK,” a swastika, and & hooded figure in restroom were insufficient to create a hostile work environment

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