133579P.pdf   06/30/2015  Bernadine Stewart  v.  Rise, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-3579
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Murphy and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Employment discrimination. Plaintiff failed to establish a 
   prima facie case of discriminatory termination as there was little support 
   for an inference that discrimination by the decision-makers motivated the 
   termination; with respect to plaintiff's hostile-work-environment claim, 
   the district court erred in granting the employer's motion for summary 
   judgment as a jury could determine that the comments at issue were part of 
   a consistent pattern of verbal abuse based on sex, race or national origin 
   and were tied to overt acts of intimidation, violence or insubordination 
   which were reported to her supervisors; the evidence showed plaintiff's 
   supervisors had decided to terminate her before she filed an EEOC 
   complaint and her retaliation claim failed; remanded for further 
   proceedings on the hostil-work-environment claim.