Legal Opinion

Doreen Fuelling v. New Vision Med. Laboratories

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided June 27, 2008No. 07-4136UnpublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

Doreen Fuelling, a white female, was employed as a phlebotomist by New Vision Medical Laboratories LLC in March of 2004 and assigned to work in the laboratory at St. Rita’s Medical Center. She alleges that black employees regularly used racially derogatory language when referring to white employees and to each other. Moreover, she claims that Ruth Ward, a black female who supervised the phlebotomists, tolerated such language when used by black employees, but disciplined white employees, including Fuelling, for using the same language, and generally treated…

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