Watson v. Ceva Logistics U.S., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that ongoing display of the Confederate flag at work by other employees could constitute harassment
• observing that “the hostile work environment must be both objectively and subjectively abusive”
• “[W]e agree that displays of confederate flags in the workplace may support a hostile work environment claim.”
• “The standard is a demanding one, and simple teasing, offhand comments, and isolated incidents (unless extremely serious) will not suffice.” (internal quotations omitted)
• same employees were involved in both “overtly racial incidents as well as incidents that were facially neutral,” supporting “plaintiffs’ claims that these allegedly neutral occurrences were, in fact, racially motivated and part of a pattern of harassment”
• “[T]he key difference between graffiti and a racial slur should not be overlooked: the slur is heard once and vanishes in an instant, while graffiti remains visible until the employer acts to remove it.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).