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Race-Based Comment Found Not To Be "Hostile".
A federal appellate court recently held that an employee who claimed he was subjected to 14 months of racially-motivated comments cannot succeed on his Title VII racial harassment claim. According to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the case must be dismissed because the alleged behavior was not "severe and pervasive" and the employee failed to adequately pursue his complaint with his supervisors.
Seventh Circuit Scolds Lower Court for Excusing Obvious Racial Harassment (pdf).
Reversing summary judgment on a hostile environment
claim for the second time in Cerros v. Steel Techs. Inc.,
No. 03-3701 (7th Cir. Feb. 23, 2005), the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit expressed concern about
a district court’s repeated misunderstanding of the legal
threshold for harassment cases.
