Racially inappropriate comments made by supervisor during interactions surrounding termination don’t void basis for termination itself.
The plaintiff alleged that he was wrongfully terminated due to his race and sought to support his claim by the fact that he was allegedly called racially insensitive names shortly before he was terminated. In dismissing the complaint, Judge Hillman concluded that the plaintiff’s behavior of urinating in the warehouse was a sufficiently severe infraction such that any employee engaging in such conduct would have been terminated and that race was not a determinative factor.
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