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In Ruiz v. Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Anthony Botting, 2025 WL 1642406 (S.D.N.Y. June 10, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s race-based hostile work environment claim asserted under the New York City Human Rights Law. From the decision: I turn next to Plaintiff’s claim under the NYCHRL that…

Read More Race-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim, Asserted Under the NYC Human Rights Law, Survives Dismissal
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In Cosenza v. Rivian Automotive, LLC, Case No. 1:23-cv-01297-JEH, 2025 WL 1603911 (C.D.Ill. April 24, 2025), the court, inter alia, held that plaintiff’s allegations met the “severe or pervasive” standard in connection with her claim of hostile work environment sexual harassment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After reviewing…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Summary Judgment; Allegations Include “Nice Tits” and Other Comments
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In Regis v. Noem, Civil Action No. 24-2405 (SLS), 2025 WL 1580808 (D.D.C. June 4, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint alleging age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). Plaintiff, a 59 year-old former fingerprint specialist at the United States Secret Service, alleged that defendant subjected…

Read More Secret Service Fingerprint Specialist’s Age Discrimination Claim Survives Dismissal
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In Russo v. Tuttnauer USA Company Limited et al, 21-cv-1720 (JMA)(AYS), 2025 WL 1604063 (E.D.N.Y. June 6, 2025), the court granted defendants’ motion for remittitur as to the jury’s award of $2.5 million for compensatory damages on plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim. The court explained, and applied, the law as follows: Under applicable New York…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Emotional Damages Award of $2.5 Million Remitted to $1 Million
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In Russo v. Tuttnauer USA Company Limited et al, 21-cv-1720 (JMA)(AYS), 2025 WL 1604063 (E.D.N.Y. June 6, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for judgment as a matter of law, under Federal Rule of Procedure 50, on plaintiff’s hostile work environment sexual harassment claims asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claims Survive Post-Trial Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law
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In Ahmad v. City of New York, No. 160768/2024, 2025 WL 1582159 (N.Y. Sup Ct, Ne York County June 04, 2025), the court, inter alia, granted plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment on her hostile work environment sexual harassment and religious discrimination claims. Its decision was based on the findings reached at an NYPD disciplinary…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment, Religious Discrimination Claims Established by NYPD Disciplinary Trial Findings
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In a unanimous opinion issued today (authored by Justice Jackson), Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services, No. 23-1039, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a lower court opinion, holding that majority-group plaintiffs are not required to meet a heightened evidentiary standard of showing “background circumstances” to establish a prima facie case of discrimination at the…

Read More SCOTUS Rejects Heightened Evidentiary Standard in “Reverse Discrimination” Cases
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A recent decision from the Eighth Circuit, Jackson v. Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc., 134 F.4th 1262 (8th Cir. April 25, 2025), illustrates the perils of waiting to the very end of the statute of limitations to file a complaint. In sum, the plaintiff filed a Charge of Discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,…

Read More Employment Discrimination Claim Held Untimely, Notwithstanding Claim of a “Computer Glitch” Affecting Electronic Filing
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In Joseph Sherman v. Thalia Graves and Gloria Allred, 24 Civ. 8494 (AT), 2025 WL 1558476 (S.D.N.Y. Jun 2, 2025), the court granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s defamation claim. This decision is a good summary of the current state of defamation law in New York. In sum, on September 24, 2024, defendant Graves filed…

Read More Court Dismisses Joseph Sherman’s Defamation Claim Against Thalia Graves and Lawyer
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In Kukreja v. Scientific Systems Company et al, 24-CV-1364 (SFR), 2025 WL 1549071 (D.Conn. May 30, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s disability-based hostile work environment claim asserted under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In sum, plaintiff alleged that he incurred injuries while on a work trip, and that (for…

Read More Citing Timely Termination, Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Disability-Based Hostile Work Environment Claims
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