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In Chamale-Eustace v. State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, et al. No. 2023–11413, 2026 WL 158303 (N.Y. App. Div. Jan. 21, 2026), the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department reversed a lower court’s decision, finding that plaintiff failed to state a claim for sex discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and…

Read More Gender Discrimination, Asserted Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 & the New York State Human Rights Law, Dismissed Due to Lack of “Adverse Employment Action”
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In Nazath v Our Lady of Consolation Nursing & Rehabilitative Care Center, No. 2023-06250, 615567/22, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 04796, 2025 WL 2458592 (App. Div. 2 Dept. Aug. 27, 2025), the Appellate Division, Second Department affirmed the lower court’s denial of defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims of disability discrimination and retaliation in violation of…

Read More Perceived-Disability Discrimination & Retaliation Claims Survive Dismissal, 2nd Dept. Holds
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In Niemotko v. Mount St. Mary Coll., 2025 NY Slip Op 04658 (N.Y. App. Div. 2 Dept. Aug. 13, 2025), the court, inter alia, affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim asserted under the New York State Human Rights Law. From the decision: A plaintiff claiming a hostile work environment animated…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Claim Properly Dismissed, 2nd Dept. Holds
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In Guarniero v City of Yonkers, No. 2023-11290, 58292/21, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 04554, 2025 WL 2233306 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., Aug. 06, 2025), the New York Appellate Division, Second Department held that plaintiff presented sufficient evidence of failure to accommodate his disability under the New York State Human Rights Law. From the decision: NYSHRL prohibits…

Read More Failure to Accommodate Disability Claim Against City of Yonkers Survives Summary Judgment
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In Margarita v Mountain Time Health, LLC, No. 2023-07450, 527470/22, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 04089, 2025 WL 1888542 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., July 09, 2025), the New York Appellate Division, Second Department, affirmed the lower court’s order granting defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s gender-based discrimination under the New York State and Human Rights Laws. From the…

Read More Citing Other Employees’ Contemporaneous Termination, 2nd Dept. Upholds Dismissal of Employment Discrimination Claims
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In Wright v. White Plains Hospital Medical Center, No. 2023-05430, 64135/19, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 02371, 2025 WL 1173144 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., Apr. 23, 2025), the court affirmed the award of summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s claims of pregnancy discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York State Human Rights…

Read More Pregnancy Discrimination Claims Properly Dismissed, 2nd Department Holds
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In Ferdous v Hasan, No. 2023-01005, 706543/22, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 01789, 2025 WL 908293 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., Mar. 26, 2025), the court, inter alia, held that plaintiff sufficiently alleged a cause of action for hostile work environment sexual harassment. From the decision: A hostile work environment on the basis of sex exists ‘when the…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Dismissal, NY Appellate Division Holds
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In Benitez v Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, No. 2020-09593, 507954/17, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 04539, 2024 WL 4281076 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., Sep. 25, 2024), the court upheld the lower court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s pregnancy discrimination claim under the New York City Human Rights Law. The court explained, and applied, the law as follows: The New…

Read More Single Comment Insufficient to Establish Pregnancy Discrimination, Court Holds
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In Elco, Melissa Breitenbach v. Yvette Aguiar, et al, No. 2022-01691, 614414/20, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 01796, 2024 WL 1423822 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., Apr. 03, 2024), the court affirmed the lower court’s denial of defendant’s motion, pursuant to CPLR 3211(a), to dismiss plaintiff’s discrimination claim asserted under the New York State Human Rights Law. From…

Read More Plaintiff Sufficiently Alleges “Inferior Terms, Conditions or Privileges of Employment” Under the Amended NYS Human Rights Law
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In Joy Stewart Acala v. Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., No. 2021-05330, 617543/19, 2023 WL 8608819 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., Dec. 13, 2023), the court, inter alia, affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff’s claims for employment discrimination asserted under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. From the decision: “A plaintiff alleging…

Read More National Origin, Disability Discrimination Claims Properly Dismissed, Court Holds; Non-Time-Barred Claims Insufficient to Allege Claims Under NYS and NYC Human Rights Laws
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