Mealey's (March 12, 2020, 7:08 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An employee who claimed that he was subjected to racial epithets by a co-worker and later fired for excessive tardiness failed to show that he was subjected to a racially hostile work environment or that his firing was in retaliation for his complaint, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 26 (Demetrius Blankenship v. American Phoenix, Inc., No. 19-2255, 7th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 5780)....