The Fifth Circuit seemed ambivalent Friday about whether to revive a Black nurse assistant’s harassment lawsuit alleging his assignments were routinely changed based on patients’ racial preferences.
The former Corpus Christi Medical Center employee says his room assignments were changed multiple times per week at the whim of racist patients, which was just part of the hostile work environment he endured during his nearly two years of employment. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is backing the worker on appeal, told Judges W. Eugene Davis, James E. Graves Jr., and Cory T. Wilson that the US District Court …