268 (5th Cir.2002). 26 . Id. 27 . Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. 510 U.S. 17, 21, 114 S.Ct. 367, 126 L.Ed.2d 295 (1993) (quoting Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57, 65, 106 S.Ct. 2399, 91 L.Ed.2d 49 (1986)). 28 . Harris, 510 U.S. at 21, 114 S.Ct. 367. 29 . Lauderdale v. Tex. Dep't of Criminal Justice, 512 F.3d 157, 163 (5th Cir.2007) (quoting Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775, 788, 118 S.Ct. 2275, 141 L.Ed.2d 662 (1998)). 30 . Insofar as GEICO argues that the district court erred in reaching the merits of White's claims without first finding the claims timely and properly exhausted, GEICO is incorrect. See, e.g., Goring v. Bd. of Supervisors of La. State Univ. & Agric. & Mech. College, 414 Fed.Appx. 630, 633 n. 4 (5th Cir.2011) (unpublish 66 (7th Cir.1991) (<HOLDING>); Spriggs v. Diamond Auto Glass, 242 F.3d 179,
holding that the plaintiff survived summary judgment where the plaintiff was subjected to nigger jokes for a tenyear period and the plaintiffs workstation was adorned with a humansized dummy with a black head holding that the white defendants association with a black defendant was not sufficient to give them standing to join in the black defendants batson challenge holding that employer is entitled to summary judgment where plaintiff fails to provide evidence necessary to prove at trial that there is disproportionate impact of employers policy on black employees holding that the ada plaintiff was unable to perform essential functions of job when the plaintiffs psychotherapist had told the employer that the plaintiff was unable to work in any position when the plaintiff did not disagree with that point and when the plaintiff in response to a request for admission conceded that she was no longer able to work holding that a hostile work environment claim survived summary judgment where evidence demonstrated years of inflammatory racial epithets including nigger and little black monkey