Case: Discrimination/Hostile Work Environment (N.D. Ill.)

Seven Black water management employees for the city of Chicago are entitled to a trial on their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 hostile work environment claim alleging subjection to racially derogatory comments, jokes, epithets and nicknames, where supervisors referring to them using the n-word and telling racist jokes, and the presence of KKK symbols, swastikas and nooses on facility grounds was sufficiently severe and pervasive enough to withstand summary judgment, an Illinois federal district court ruled.