The underlying action for Title VII and Section 1981 violations, alleged that Chrysler failed to take reasonable steps to stop racist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic harassment and death threats targeted at the plaintiff by unknown co-worker(s).
The Seventh Circuit held that he record contained sufficient evidence to show that Chrysler failed to take reasonable steps to protect the plaintiff from harassment where the employee produced evidence of dozens of incidents of harassment in a three-year period, despite the fact that Chrysler initially conducted two meetings and hired hand-writing expert in an unsuccessful effort to monitor situation and to identify culprit(s) during the first year.