Yvette Cruz v. Coach Stores, Inc., David Otani, William Betts, Diane Lewis, Sara Lee Corporation, and Herve Heriveaux

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• holding that discriminatory behavior not directed at plaintiff can still contribute to the creation of an overall hostile work environment
• holding that supervisors “physically threatening” behavior brought the “case over the line separating merely offensive or boorish conduct from actionable sexual harassment”
• holding that a jury could find that evidence of racial harassment exacerbated sexual harassment, and vice versa
• holding that “[t]he term ‘protected activity’ refers to action taken to protest or oppose statutorily prohibited discrimination” (quotation and other citation omitted)
• holding that 3 discriminatory behavior not directed at plaintiff can still contribute to the creation of an overall 4 hostile work environment
• concluding that persistent racial and sexual slurs by a supervisor supported a viable hostile work environment claim

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