United States Sixth Circuit

Evidence of a racially-charged letter and offensive phone messages on an employee's answering machine is insufficient to show a subjectively hostile work environment where the employee did not consider the racially-charged letter a "big deal" and did not "lose sleep" over the message.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/27/2001
• Published 09/27/2001

Judges

• Before:  MARTIN, Chief Judge;  NELSON, Circuit Judge;  RICE, Chief District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark A. Allen (briefed), Allen, Godwin, Morris, Laurenzi & Bloomfield, Memphis, TN, Florence M. Johnson (argued and briefed), Memphis, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dwayne S. Byrd (argued), Stephen R. Cochell (briefed), Elaine K. Sanders (briefed), Federal Exp. Corp., Memphis, TN, for Defendant-Appellee.