KENGERSKI v. HARPER

No. 20-1307.

6 F.4th 531 (2021)

Jeffrey KENGERSKI, Appellant, v. Orlando HARPER; County of Allegheny.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion filed July 29, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret S. Coleman (Argued), Law Offices of Timothy P. O'Brien, 535 Smithfield Street, Suite 1025, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Counsel for Appellant.

Andrew F. Szefi , Virginia Spencer Scott (Argued), Frances M. Liebenguth (Argued), Allegheny County Law Department, 300 Fort Pitt Commons, 445 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, Counsel for Appellee.

Sharon Fast Gustafson , Jennifer S. Goldstein , Elizabeth E. Theran , James M. Tucker , Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of General Counsel, 131 M St. NE, Rm. 5NW10P, Washington, D.C. 20507, Eric. S. Dreiband , Alexander V. Maugeri , Katherine E. Lamm (Argued), U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section, Ben Franklin Station, P.O. Box 14403, Washington, D.C. 20044-4403, Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer , U.S. Department of Justice, Appellant Section, MJB 3718, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20004, Counsel for Amicus Appellant United States of America.

Samuel J. Cordes , Rothman Gordon, P.C., 310 Grant Street, Third Floor, Grant Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, Counsel for Amicus Appellants The Western Pennsylvania Employment Lawyers Association, National Employment Lawyers Association Eastern Pennsylvania.

Before: AMBRO, BIBAS and ROTH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

Jeffrey Kengerski, a Captain at the Allegheny County Jail, made a written complaint to the jail Warden alleging that a colleague had called his biracial grand-niece a "monkey" and then sent him a series of text messages with racially offensive comments about his coworkers. Seven months later,...

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