Employment Law

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In Separ v. County of Nassau, 2025 WL 51206 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 8, 2025), the court denied defendant’s motion to enforce a settlement agreement/breach of the settlement agreement. The court outlined the facts as follows: The parties achieved a settlement in principle in this employment discrimination case during a settlement conference held before the undersigned on…

Read More Discrimination Plaintiff’s Failure to Sign Confidentiality & Non-Disparagement Acknowledgment Renders Settlement Agreement Ineffective
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In Acosta v. Kennedy Children’s Center, 24 Civ. 3358, 2025 WL 70141 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 10, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s disability discrimination claims asserted under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL), and the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL). From…

Read More PTSD-Related Disability Discrimination Claims Sufficiently Alleged, Court Holds
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In Rogers v. Voltron Data, Inc., Civil Action No.: 24-84 (RC), 2024 WL 4647644 (D.D.C. Oct. 31, 2024), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims of race and sex discrimination. The court rejected defendants’ allegations that plaintiff’s allegations were “threadbare”, explaining: [Plaintiff’s complaint] contains plenty of “factual matter, accepted as true,…

Read More Race, Sex Discrimination Claims Plausibly Alleged; Allegations Include Less Compensation and Denial of Superior Title
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In Rios v. Max Mara USA Inc. et al, No. 23-CV-9839 (LAP), 2025 WL 66502 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 10, 2025), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings (under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(c)) on plaintiff’s claim of hostile work environment sexual harassment asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Dismissed; Pretend Breast “Motorboating” Insufficiently “Severe”
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In Woo v. The City of New York, No. 161109/2022, 2025 WL 65869 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Jan. 8, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s quid pro quo and hostile work environment sexual harassment claims. From the decision: The issue in a quid pro quo sexual harassment case brought…

Read More Sexual Harassment Claims Survive Dismissal; Allegations Included That Punitive Assignments Followed Drink Request Refusal
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In Dixon v. City of New York, 23-cv-8941 (JGK), 2025 WL 50140 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 7, 2025), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s disability-based hostile work environment claims. This decision illustrates that generalized objectionable conduct – such as what might be considered “verbal harassment” – is alone insufficient to constitute an actionable…

Read More Disability-Based Hostile Work Environment Claims Dismissed; Allegation of Being Addressed in a “Loud, Aggressive and Belligerent Tone” Insufficient
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In Puleo v. Masonic Medical Research Institute et al, 2025 WL 45393 (2d Cir. Jan. 8, 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the lower court’s determination that defendants were entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff’s age discrimination claims. From the decision: Puleo’s claim for age discrimination under the ADEA is…

Read More Age Discrimination Dismissal Upheld; Replacement by Younger Worker Insufficient
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In Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Fred Meyer Stores, Inc., NO. 4:24-CV-5085-TOR, 2024 WL 5077603 (E.D.Wash., 2024), the court denied defendant’s motion to dismiss or for a more definite statement (pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(e)). From the decision: In the present matter, the Complaint satisfies the requirement of a hostile work environment…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Sufficiently Alleged; Motion to Dismiss or For More Definite Statement Denied
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In Zuber v. Republic First Bancorp Inc., No. 23-991, 2024 WL 5147018 (E.D.Pa. Dec. 17, 2024), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As to whether the alleged harassment was sufficiently “severe or pervasive”, the…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Summary Judgment; Court Cited Alleged Request to Have Sex at Work Despite Prior Rejection
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In Quiles-Carrasquillo v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service, Civil No. 23-1468 (FAB), 2025 WL 25672 (D.Puerto Rico Jan. 3, 2025), the court, inter alia, adopted a Magistrate Judge’s Report & Recommendation recommending the denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s sex-based hostile work environment claim pursuant to Title VII of the…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Claim Sufficiently Alleged; Verbal Threats Were Sufficiently “Severe”
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