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Supreme Court consider hearing a case on 'most offensive word' If the justices agree, they could decide whether the use of one word alone allows an employee to sue under Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Author: JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press Published: 8:09 AM CDT May 13, 2021 Updated: 8:09 AM CDT May 13, 2021 WASHINGTON — Editor's Note: Includes references throughout to racist language. Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurse...

Jennifer A. Holmes, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which has urged the court to take the case, says she hopes the conversations taking place nationally will push the justices in that direction. Doing so gives the court an “opportunity to show that they’re not insensitive to issues of race,” Holmes said. And courts are "all the time" confronting workplace discrimination claims involving use of the racial slur, she said. The question for the justices, she said, is just whether someone who experiences an isolated instance of the racial slur can “advance their...

Jennifer A. Holmes, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which has urged the court to take the case, says she hopes the conversations taking place nationally will push the justices in that direction. Doing so gives the court an “opportunity to show that they’re not insensitive to issues of race,” Holmes said. And courts are "all the time" confronting workplace discrimination claims involving use of the racial slur, she said. The question for the justices, she said, is just whether someone who experiences an isolated instance of the racial slur can “advance their...

Robert Collier is asking the U.S. Supreme Court justices to decide whether a single use of the racial slur in the workplace can create a hostile work...

Robert Collier is asking the U.S. Supreme Court justices to decide whether a single use of the racial slur in the workplace can create a hostile work...