Collier v. Dallas County Hospital District
Petition for certiorari denied on May 17, 2021
Issues: (1) Whether an employee’s exposure to the N-word
in the workplace is severe enough to send his
Title VII hostile-work-environment claim to a
trier of fact; and (2) whether and in what circumstances racial
epithets in the workplace are “extremely
serious” incidents sufficient to create a hostile
work environment under Title VII, rather than
nonactionable “mere utterances.”
| Date | Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding) |
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| Jan 15 2021 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 25, 2021) |
| Jan 27 2021 | Waiver of right of respondent Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System to respond filed. |
| Feb 03 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/19/2021. |
| Feb 12 2021 | Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Howard University School of Law Human and Civil Rights Clinic. |
| Feb 15 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc filed. |
| Feb 16 2021 | Response Requested. (Due March 18, 2021) |
| Mar 01 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 18, 2021 to April 8, 2021, submitted to The Clerk. |
| Mar 02 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 8, 2021. |
| Mar 18 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Social Science Experts, Race Equity Scholars, Law Professors, and Civil Rights Entities filed. |
| Apr 08 2021 | Brief of respondent Dallas County Hospital District, dba Parkland Health & Hospital System in opposition filed. |
| Apr 23 2021 | Reply of petitioner Robert Collier filed. |
| Apr 27 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/13/2021. |
| May 17 2021 | Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Howard University School of Law Human and Civil Rights Clinic GRANTED. |
| May 17 2021 | Petition DENIED. |
