April 09, 2021
A Dallas hospital urged the U.S. Supreme Court to turn down a race bias suit from a former operating room aide who claims there's a circuit split on whether a single use of the N-word is enough to sustain a hostile work environment claim.
March 19, 2021
A coalition of civil rights groups, law school professors and other scholars urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a Black former hospital worker's race bias suit, arguing that even a single use of the N-word "annihilates the well-being" of its target and constitutes discrimination.
February 16, 2021
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear a Black ex-hospital worker's race bias case, arguing that the Fifth Circuit took a "cramped" view of the law that failed to account for the effect of the N-word when it tossed the suit.
February 10, 2021
A Black ex-hospital employee who says he was called the N-word at work wants the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on whether a single slur is enough to keep a race bias case afloat, but some worker advocates worry his case could set plaintiffs back.
January 27, 2021
A Black ex-worker at a Dallas hospital urged U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether a single utterance of a racial slur Justice Brett Kavanaugh once called "the most offensive word in English" is sufficient to sustain a federal hostile work environment claim, citing an "intractable" circuit split.