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In Harris v City of New York, No. 156195/2024, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 25067, 2025 WL 866041 (Sup Ct, Mar. 19, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claim of weight discrimination under the New York City Human Rights Law. In sum, plaintiff – after taking and passing a civil service…

Read More Court Considers the Pleading Standard For Weight Discrimination Under the NYC Human Rights Law
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In Gil-Frederick v. The City of New York, No. 155628/2023, 2025 WL 804677 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 13, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s retaliation claims under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. From the decision: Both the NYSHRL and the NYCHRL make it…

Read More Retaliation Claims Survive Dismissal; Accommodation Requests Denied Following Internal Complaints of Discrimination
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In Gil-Frederick v. The City of New York, No. 155628/2023, 2025 WL 804677 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 13, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s disability discrimination claims under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. From the decision: Under the NYSHRL it is unlawful for…

Read More Disability Discrimination Claims Survive Dismissal; “Blanket Denials” Minutes After Accommodation Request Failed to Satisfy “Interactive Process”
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In Coley v. Lead Sec. Group Inc., No. 152480/2023, 2025 WL 317653 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Jan. 22, 2025), the court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s employment discrimination claims. This decision illustrates the relatively low bar defining a plaintiff’s pleading obligation under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws: On…

Read More Employment Discrimination Claims Survive Dismissal, Court Holds
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In Zadok v. Lomner, No. 151526/2024, 2025 WL 675168 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 03, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s false imprisonment claim. The court summarized, and applied, the law as follows: In an action for false imprisonment, four elements must be established: (1) the defendant intended…

Read More Tenant Sufficiently Alleges False Imprisonment Claim
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In Zadok v. Lomner, No. 151526/2024, 2025 WL 675168 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 03, 2025), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s housing discrimination claim under the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL). From the decision: To plead a cause of action for housing discrimination, a plaintiff must…

Read More Citing “Stray Remarks” Doctrine, Court Dismisses Housing Discrimination Claim
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In Walls v. City of New York, No. 156492/2024, 2025 WL 697108 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 04, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim on statute of limitations grounds. In doing so, the court applied the “continuing violation doctrine”: Defendants argue that Plaintiff’s claims…

Read More Applying “Continuing Violation Doctrine”, Court Rejects Statute of Limitations Challenge to Hostile Work Environment Claims
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In Keenan v. Bloomberg, LP, No. 155679/2024, 2025 WL 675170 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 03, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s age- and sex-based discrimination and hostile work environment, and retaliation, claims under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. From the decision: Both the…

Read More News Anchor Sufficiently Alleges Age, Sex Discrimination Against Bloomberg LP, Court Holds
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In Diolosa v. Regency Intern. Business Corp., No. 158730/2016, 2025 WL 257217, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 30233(U)(N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Jan. 21, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s claim of race/national origin discrimination under the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL). After summarizing the black-letter…

Read More Citing Murderer, Meatball Comments, Court Denies Summary Judgment on Race/National Origin Discrimination Claim
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In Lilly v. The State of New York, No. 155539/2024, 2025 WL 592918 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Feb. 24, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims of disability discrimination asserted under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. From the decision; To state an employment discrimination…

Read More Disability Discrimination Claims Sufficiently Alleged
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