Mealey's (September 7, 2022, 12:26 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A former employee of a North Carolina assisted living facility may proceed with hostile work environment and constructive discharge claims based on three incidents of being called a racial slur by a minor member of the family that owned the facility and may present evidence of earlier alleged racial harassment by the owner and at least one other family member, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Aug. 30, finding in part that the trial court erred in refusing to consider the earlier incidents alleged by the employee....