Legal Opinion
Robert Adams v. Austal, USA, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 2014No. 12-11507PublishedCited by 165 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves complaints of a racially hostile work environment at a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, owned by Austal, U.S.A., L.L.C. The complaints allege harassment that included vulgar racial graffiti in the men’s restroom, appearances of nooses, displays of Confederate flags, and utterances of racial slurs. For almost ten years, Austal repeatedly scrubbed the graffiti from the restroom walls until it finally wised up and painted the walls black. For the most part, the graffiti then ceased. Eventually, 24 African-American current and former employees of Austal filed…
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