United States Tenth Circuit

Employees who only spent a few minutes at the beginning and end of each work day at central office where they heard or were subjected to racial slurs are entitled to trial on hostile work environment claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/30/2001
• Published 11/30/2001

Judges

• JOHN C. PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, HALL, and PORFILIO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Federico C. Alvarez (Rodrigo V. Ramos, Scherr, Legate, & Ehrlich, PLLC, El Paso, TX, on the briefs), Kelly, Haglund, Garnsey & Kahn, Denver, CO, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Vigil (Jo Saxton Brayer, Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., Albuquerque, NM;  David W. Croysdale and Amy Schmidt Jones, Michael Best & Friedrich, L.L.P., Milwaukee, WI, with him on the briefs), Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for Defendants-Appellees.