Assisted Living Facility Not Liable for Race Bias by Residents

A federal appeals court declined to reinstate EEOC allegations that residents and supervisers at an Indiana-based assisted living facility regularly mocked and used the N-word and other racist slurs against Black nurses, medical aides, and other staff.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday rejected the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s argument that a trial judge wrongly ignored binding precedent and instead favored contrary case law from the Fifth Circuit.

The EEOC specifically challenged the district judge’s finding that the use of the N-word and other racist slurs against 15 of the Village ...