Briana Winston Was Recently Employed as a Flight Attendant by Tropical

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Briana Winston was recently employed as a flight attendant by Tropical Coast Airlines. She was the only black female flight attendant at her airport hub. Upon arriving at her hub after attending flight attendant school, Briana experienced incidents at work that included occasional racial slurs by co-workers, having coffee spilled on her uniform before boarding flights, and having the lock jammed on her company locker. One co-worker told her, in front of their supervisor that the airline's customers would not want to take orders from a black girl in case of an in-flight emergency. Briana resigned after 6 months of this treatment.

• A) Briana has a cause of action for racial harassment under 42 U.S.C. 1983.
• B) Briana does not have a cause of action for racial harassment.
• C) Briana has a cause of action for racial harassment under Title VII.
• D) None of the choices are correct.

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