Legal Opinion
Taylor v. Metzger
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided February 18, 1998PublishedCited by 235 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
HANDLER, J.
The central issue in this appeal is whether a single derogatory racial comment directed against a subordinate employee by a supervisor can create a hostile work environment in violation of the Law Against Discrimination. A closely-related issue is whether, the utterance of this comment also constitutes the tort of the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The employee in this case, a county sheriff’s officer, claims that her employer, the county sheriff, uttered a racial epithet against *495her in the presence of another supervisor, the…
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