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        "title": "United States Court of Appeals",
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        "title": "For the Eighth Circuit",
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      },
      {
        "title": "No. 25-1318",
        "paragraphs": [
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        "title": "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission",
        "paragraphs": []
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      {
        "title": "Plaintiff - Appellant",
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      {
        "title": "Bryan Banks",
        "paragraphs": []
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      {
        "title": "Intervenor",
        "paragraphs": [
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        "title": "Sun Chemical Corporation",
        "paragraphs": []
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      {
        "title": "Defendant - Appellee",
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          "para_13"
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        "title": "Appeal from United States District Court",
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      {
        "title": "Submitted: January 14, 2026",
        "paragraphs": []
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        "title": "Filed: August 4, 2026",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_19",
          "para_20",
          "para_21",
          "para_22",
          "para_23",
          "para_24"
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      {
        "title": "The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission believes the jury",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_26",
          "para_27",
          "para_28"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Bryan Banks and Ricardo Nevarez did not get along. Both were technicians",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_30"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "At first, Nevarez trained Banks. But over time, their relationship deteriorated",
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      },
      {
        "title": "Nevarez tells it, the relationship soured because Banks repeatedly questioned his",
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      },
      {
        "title": "Banks, on the other hand, thought Nevarez was prejudiced based on an earlier",
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          "para_37",
          "para_38",
          "para_39",
          "para_40",
          "para_41",
          "para_42"
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      {
        "title": "Nevarez punched it so hard it left a dent. Another exchange of insults followed. As",
        "paragraphs": []
      },
      {
        "title": "Banks walked away again, Nevarez screamed that he was a “fucking [N-word]”",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_45"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Later that morning, Banks reported the incident to a manager. The company",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_47",
          "para_48",
          "para_49",
          "para_50"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Dissatisfied with the outcome, Banks filed a charge of discrimination with the",
        "paragraphs": []
      },
      {
        "title": "EEOC. After attempts at reaching an agreement failed, the agency sued the company",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_53"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f)(1) (explaining that if a “conciliation agreement” cannot be",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_55",
          "para_56",
          "para_57"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "See id. § 2000e-2(a)(1) (making it illegal “to discriminate against any individual",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_59",
          "para_60"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "The hostile-work-environment claim made it to a jury, but only because the",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_62",
          "para_63",
          "para_64",
          "para_65",
          "para_66"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "The EEOC believes the jury was misled by flawed jury instructions that did",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_68"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "According to the instructions, liability depended on whether it proved, among other",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_70",
          "para_71",
          "para_72",
          "para_73"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "1The Honorable Roseann A. Ketchmark, United States District Judge for the",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_75",
          "para_76",
          "para_77"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "(explaining that “a plaintiff could . . . prevail by showing that his or her employer",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_79",
          "para_80",
          "para_81"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "We need not decide whether the instructions adequately reflected the EEOC’s",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_83",
          "para_84"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "F.3d 453, 463 (8th Cir. 2016) (explaining that the district court is “not required to",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_86",
          "para_87",
          "para_88",
          "para_89"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Cir. 2021) (citation omitted). The district court was right to be skeptical that a",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_91"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Start with the first element. At most, the record shows that Sun Chemical may",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_93",
          "para_94"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Cir. 2007) (noting that “a single harassing act might not be actionable standing",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_96",
          "para_97",
          "para_98",
          "para_99",
          "para_100"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "The second element also presented an obstacle for the EEOC’s theory. Sun",
        "paragraphs": []
      },
      {
        "title": "Chemical took “preventative remedial action” shortly after the first incident",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_103",
          "para_104",
          "para_105",
          "para_106",
          "para_107",
          "para_108",
          "para_109",
          "para_110",
          "para_111"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "To be sure, the EEOC claims that Nevarez also used the N-word in occasional",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_113",
          "para_114",
          "para_115",
          "para_116",
          "para_117"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "Sears Roebuck & Co., 175 F.3d 289, 294 (3d Cir. 1999)). Nor were a few offhand",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_119",
          "para_120"
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "324 F.3d 1252, 1259 (11th Cir. 2003)) (defining constructive notice in the Title VII",
        "paragraphs": [
          "para_122",
          "para_123",
          "para_124",
          "para_125"
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        "text": "United States Court of Appeals",
        "paragraph_id": "para_1"
      },
      {
        "text": "For the Eighth Circuit",
        "paragraph_id": "para_2"
      },
      {
        "text": "___________________________",
        "paragraph_id": "para_3"
      },
      {
        "text": "No. 25-1318",
        "paragraph_id": "para_4"
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      {
        "text": "___________________________",
        "paragraph_id": "para_5"
      },
      {
        "text": "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission",
        "paragraph_id": "para_6"
      },
      {
        "text": "Plaintiff - Appellant",
        "paragraph_id": "para_7"
      },
      {
        "text": "Bryan Banks",
        "paragraph_id": "para_8"
      },
      {
        "text": "Intervenor",
        "paragraph_id": "para_9"
      },
      {
        "text": "v.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_10"
      },
      {
        "text": "Sun Chemical Corporation",
        "paragraph_id": "para_11"
      },
      {
        "text": "Defendant - Appellee",
        "paragraph_id": "para_12"
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      {
        "text": "____________",
        "paragraph_id": "para_13"
      },
      {
        "text": "Appeal from United States District Court",
        "paragraph_id": "para_14"
      },
      {
        "text": "for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City",
        "paragraph_id": "para_15"
      },
      {
        "text": "____________",
        "paragraph_id": "para_16"
      },
      {
        "text": "Submitted: January 14, 2026",
        "paragraph_id": "para_17"
      },
      {
        "text": "Filed: August 4, 2026",
        "paragraph_id": "para_18"
      },
      {
        "text": "[Published]",
        "paragraph_id": "para_19"
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      {
        "text": "____________",
        "paragraph_id": "para_20"
      },
      {
        "text": "Before SHEPHERD, KELLY, and STRAS, Circuit Judges.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_21"
      },
      {
        "text": "____________",
        "paragraph_id": "para_22"
      },
      {
        "text": "-2-",
        "paragraph_id": "para_23"
      },
      {
        "text": "PER CURIAM.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_24"
      },
      {
        "text": "The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission believes the jury",
        "paragraph_id": "para_25"
      },
      {
        "text": "instructions did not cover its theory of workplace discrimination. Whether they did",
        "paragraph_id": "para_26"
      },
      {
        "text": "or not, the evidence did not support it, so we affirm.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_27"
      },
      {
        "text": "I.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_28"
      },
      {
        "text": "Bryan Banks and Ricardo Nevarez did not get along. Both were technicians",
        "paragraph_id": "para_29"
      },
      {
        "text": "at Sun Chemical Corporation, a manufacturer of inks, colorants, and coatings.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_30"
      },
      {
        "text": "At first, Nevarez trained Banks. But over time, their relationship deteriorated",
        "paragraph_id": "para_31"
      },
      {
        "text": "to the point that Nevarez stopped looking Banks in the eye or speaking to him. As",
        "paragraph_id": "para_32"
      },
      {
        "text": "Nevarez tells it, the relationship soured because Banks repeatedly questioned his",
        "paragraph_id": "para_33"
      },
      {
        "text": "work ethic, including by suggesting he lied about his son’s death to get time off.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_34"
      },
      {
        "text": "Banks, on the other hand, thought Nevarez was prejudiced based on an earlier",
        "paragraph_id": "para_35"
      },
      {
        "text": "incident in which he had reportedly called the plant’s only other black employee the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_36"
      },
      {
        "text": "N-word.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_37"
      },
      {
        "text": "Their frayed relationship eventually reached a breaking point. One morning,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_38"
      },
      {
        "text": "someone asked, “[w]here’s [Nevarez]?” Within earshot of the comment, he burst",
        "paragraph_id": "para_39"
      },
      {
        "text": "into the room to yell at Banks for questioning his work ethic again. Banks eventually",
        "paragraph_id": "para_40"
      },
      {
        "text": "walked away, but not before they stood toe-to-toe and traded expletives.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_41"
      },
      {
        "text": "Still angry, Nevarez followed Banks to his locker. As Banks bent down,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_42"
      },
      {
        "text": "Nevarez punched it so hard it left a dent. Another exchange of insults followed. As",
        "paragraph_id": "para_43"
      },
      {
        "text": "Banks walked away again, Nevarez screamed that he was a “fucking [N-word]”",
        "paragraph_id": "para_44"
      },
      {
        "text": "three times.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_45"
      },
      {
        "text": "Later that morning, Banks reported the incident to a manager. The company",
        "paragraph_id": "para_46"
      },
      {
        "text": "suspended Nevarez for five days without pay and informed him that future incidents",
        "paragraph_id": "para_47"
      },
      {
        "text": "-3-",
        "paragraph_id": "para_48"
      },
      {
        "text": "would lead to more discipline, up to and including termination. For his use of",
        "paragraph_id": "para_49"
      },
      {
        "text": "profanity, Banks received a written warning.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_50"
      },
      {
        "text": "Dissatisfied with the outcome, Banks filed a charge of discrimination with the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_51"
      },
      {
        "text": "EEOC. After attempts at reaching an agreement failed, the agency sued the company",
        "paragraph_id": "para_52"
      },
      {
        "text": "in federal district court for violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. See",
        "paragraph_id": "para_53"
      },
      {
        "text": "42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f)(1) (explaining that if a “conciliation agreement” cannot be",
        "paragraph_id": "para_54"
      },
      {
        "text": "reached, “the Commission may bring a civil action” and the “person or persons",
        "paragraph_id": "para_55"
      },
      {
        "text": "aggrieved shall have the right to intervene”). Together with Banks, who intervened,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_56"
      },
      {
        "text": "they argued that Sun Chemical went too easy on Nevarez both times he used the slur.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_57"
      },
      {
        "text": "See id. § 2000e-2(a)(1) (making it illegal “to discriminate against any individual",
        "paragraph_id": "para_58"
      },
      {
        "text": "with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_59"
      },
      {
        "text": "because of such individual’s race”).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_60"
      },
      {
        "text": "The hostile-work-environment claim made it to a jury, but only because the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_61"
      },
      {
        "text": "district court1 denied a directed verdict out of “an abundance of caution.” It said at",
        "paragraph_id": "para_62"
      },
      {
        "text": "the time that it did not “know how a jury could find for” the EEOC and Banks. The",
        "paragraph_id": "para_63"
      },
      {
        "text": "court’s prediction turned out to be true: the jury concluded that Sun Chemical did",
        "paragraph_id": "para_64"
      },
      {
        "text": "not discriminate against Banks.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_65"
      },
      {
        "text": "II.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_66"
      },
      {
        "text": "The EEOC believes the jury was misled by flawed jury instructions that did",
        "paragraph_id": "para_67"
      },
      {
        "text": "not cover its theory that Sun Chemical could have prevented the harassment.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_68"
      },
      {
        "text": "According to the instructions, liability depended on whether it proved, among other",
        "paragraph_id": "para_69"
      },
      {
        "text": "things, that the company “knew or should have known of the harassing conduct” and",
        "paragraph_id": "para_70"
      },
      {
        "text": "“failed to take prompt and appropriate corrective action to end the harassment.” The",
        "paragraph_id": "para_71"
      },
      {
        "text": "alleged problem was that they focused exclusively on whether Sun Chemical",
        "paragraph_id": "para_72"
      },
      {
        "text": "adequately responded to Banks’s harassment, not whether it had failed to prevent it",
        "paragraph_id": "para_73"
      },
      {
        "text": "1The Honorable Roseann A. Ketchmark, United States District Judge for the",
        "paragraph_id": "para_74"
      },
      {
        "text": "Western District of Missouri.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_75"
      },
      {
        "text": "-4-",
        "paragraph_id": "para_76"
      },
      {
        "text": "in the first place. See Vance v. Ball State Univ., 570 U.S. 421, 448–49 (2013)",
        "paragraph_id": "para_77"
      },
      {
        "text": "(explaining that “a plaintiff could . . . prevail by showing that his or her employer",
        "paragraph_id": "para_78"
      },
      {
        "text": "was negligent in failing to prevent harassment from taking place”). And then a",
        "paragraph_id": "para_79"
      },
      {
        "text": "supplemental instruction that referred to “[p]roper remedial action” only added to",
        "paragraph_id": "para_80"
      },
      {
        "text": "the confusion.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_81"
      },
      {
        "text": "We need not decide whether the instructions adequately reflected the EEOC’s",
        "paragraph_id": "para_82"
      },
      {
        "text": "failure-to-prevent-harassment theory because the evidence did not support one, at",
        "paragraph_id": "para_83"
      },
      {
        "text": "least under our precedent. See Lincoln Composites, Inc. v. Firetrace USA, LLC, 825",
        "paragraph_id": "para_84"
      },
      {
        "text": "F.3d 453, 463 (8th Cir. 2016) (explaining that the district court is “not required to",
        "paragraph_id": "para_85"
      },
      {
        "text": "instruct on issues that do not find support in the record” (citation omitted)). To be",
        "paragraph_id": "para_86"
      },
      {
        "text": "liable, Sun Chemical had to (1) have actual or constructive knowledge of “ongoing”",
        "paragraph_id": "para_87"
      },
      {
        "text": "harassment by Nevarez, and (2) decline to take “remedial action reasonably",
        "paragraph_id": "para_88"
      },
      {
        "text": "calculated to stop [it].” Sellars v. CRST Expedited, Inc., 13 F.4th 681, 697, 700 (8th",
        "paragraph_id": "para_89"
      },
      {
        "text": "Cir. 2021) (citation omitted). The district court was right to be skeptical that a",
        "paragraph_id": "para_90"
      },
      {
        "text": "reasonable jury could side with the EEOC.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_91"
      },
      {
        "text": "Start with the first element. At most, the record shows that Sun Chemical may",
        "paragraph_id": "para_92"
      },
      {
        "text": "have known of a single past incident involving Nevarez, not any “ongoing” racial",
        "paragraph_id": "para_93"
      },
      {
        "text": "harassment. Id. at 700; see Engel v. Rapid City Sch. Dist., 506 F.3d 1118, 1124 (8th",
        "paragraph_id": "para_94"
      },
      {
        "text": "Cir. 2007) (noting that “a single harassing act might not be actionable standing",
        "paragraph_id": "para_95"
      },
      {
        "text": "alone”). He used the N-word once toward another black employee, but nothing",
        "paragraph_id": "para_96"
      },
      {
        "text": "about that incident would have placed the company on notice that he was a “known",
        "paragraph_id": "para_97"
      },
      {
        "text": "serial harasser.” Sellars, 13 F.4th at 700; cf. Engel, 506 F.3d at 1124–25 (reversing",
        "paragraph_id": "para_98"
      },
      {
        "text": "a grant of summary judgment to an employer who knew that a harasser had",
        "paragraph_id": "para_99"
      },
      {
        "text": "“continued certain elements of the harassment”).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_100"
      },
      {
        "text": "The second element also presented an obstacle for the EEOC’s theory. Sun",
        "paragraph_id": "para_101"
      },
      {
        "text": "Chemical took “preventative remedial action” shortly after the first incident",
        "paragraph_id": "para_102"
      },
      {
        "text": "occurred. Sellars, 13 F.4th at 698. It sent a written “disciplinary action” to Nevarez",
        "paragraph_id": "para_103"
      },
      {
        "text": "asking him to “take a step back and begin to think about what you are about to say",
        "paragraph_id": "para_104"
      },
      {
        "text": "and the consequences that may follow.” The response could have been stronger, but",
        "paragraph_id": "para_105"
      },
      {
        "text": "-5-",
        "paragraph_id": "para_106"
      },
      {
        "text": "it reflected Navarez’s more than three decades of service without a history of",
        "paragraph_id": "para_107"
      },
      {
        "text": "harassment. See Engel, 506 F.3d at 1125 (explaining that “the law does not require",
        "paragraph_id": "para_108"
      },
      {
        "text": "an employer to fire a . . . harasser in the first instance to demonstrate an adequate",
        "paragraph_id": "para_109"
      },
      {
        "text": "remedial response”); cf. Sellars, 13 F.4th at 699 (stating that “employers may be",
        "paragraph_id": "para_110"
      },
      {
        "text": "required to escalate their response to repeated harassment” (emphases added)).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_111"
      },
      {
        "text": "To be sure, the EEOC claims that Nevarez also used the N-word in occasional",
        "paragraph_id": "para_112"
      },
      {
        "text": "workplace conversations. What is missing, however, is evidence that Sun Chemical",
        "paragraph_id": "para_113"
      },
      {
        "text": "had “actual or constructive notice of [that] conduct.” Sellars, 13 F.4th at 697. As",
        "paragraph_id": "para_114"
      },
      {
        "text": "the EEOC admits, no one reported it, so there was not “enough information to raise",
        "paragraph_id": "para_115"
      },
      {
        "text": "a probability of . . . harassment in the mind of a reasonable employer.” Sandoval v.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_116"
      },
      {
        "text": "Am. Bldg. Maint. Indus., Inc., 578 F.3d 787, 802 (8th Cir. 2009) (quoting Kunin v.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_117"
      },
      {
        "text": "Sears Roebuck & Co., 175 F.3d 289, 294 (3d Cir. 1999)). Nor were a few offhand",
        "paragraph_id": "para_118"
      },
      {
        "text": "uses of the slur, unacceptable as they are, “so severe and pervasive that management",
        "paragraph_id": "para_119"
      },
      {
        "text": "reasonably should have known of [them].” Id. (quoting Watson v. Blue Circle, Inc.,",
        "paragraph_id": "para_120"
      },
      {
        "text": "324 F.3d 1252, 1259 (11th Cir. 2003)) (defining constructive notice in the Title VII",
        "paragraph_id": "para_121"
      },
      {
        "text": "context).",
        "paragraph_id": "para_122"
      },
      {
        "text": "III.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_123"
      },
      {
        "text": "We accordingly affirm the judgment of the district court.",
        "paragraph_id": "para_124"
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