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Register online for monthly updates on your city and neighborhood, automatically emailed to you.to this appeal. The plaintiff, an African-American
homosexual male, began his employment as a dura-
tional social worker trainee with the defendant on May
25, 2007. On December 26, 2008, the plaintiff filed a
claim of employment discrimination against the defen-
dant with the Commission on Human Rights and Oppor-
tunities (commission) alleging, in part, the claims set
forth in the present case. In December, 2010, following
the commission’s release of jurisdiction, the plaintiff
brought an action in state court alleging employment
discrimination in violation of the act. Specifically, the
plaintiff claimed that the defendant discriminated
against him during his employment because of his sex-
ual orientation, retaliated against him because he sub-
mitted a formal complaint about the discriminatory
behavior, and subjected him to a hostile work envi-
ronment.
   Following a trial to the court, the court, Scholl, J.,
made detailed factual