Supreme Court won't hear case involving the N-word

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3. Barrett and Kavanaugh on the n-word:

In 2019, as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote an opinion for a panel of three judges who unanimously ruled against a Black man who sued over alleged discrimination and had his case dismissed at an early stage. Among other things, he claimed a former supervisor at the Illinois Department of Transportation called him the N-word.

"The n-word is an egregious racial epithet," she wrote. But she said previous cases have made clear that an employee can't win his case "simply by proving that the word was uttered." He also must prove that "use of this word altered the conditions of his employment and created a hostile or abusive working environment."

In 2013, as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Kavanaugh was a part of a three-judge panel including now-Attorney General Merrick Garland that sided with a Black former Fannie Mae employee who sued alleging racial discrimination. The judges ruled that the man, who said he was called the N-word by a supervisor, shouldn't have had his case dismissed at an early stage.

Kavanaugh wrote separately about "probably the most offensive word in English." His view, he said, is that the word's use in the workplace by a supervisor "suffices by itself to establish a racially hostile work environment."

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/supreme-court-justices-consider-hearing-parkland-hospital-case-on-most-offensive-word/2632711/