CPLR 3211(a)(7)

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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, 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 McQueen v. City of New York, No. 155209/2023, 2025 WL 554518 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Feb. 18, 2025), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s disability discrimination claims under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. After summarizing the black-letter law, the court applied it to the…

Read More Recovering Alcoholic Was Not “Disabled”; Court Dismisses Disability Discrimination Claims
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In Greenberg v Seton Education Partners, No. 600733/2024, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 25026, 2025 WL 396770 (Sup Ct, Jan. 30, 2025), the court, inter alia, held that plaintiff sufficiently alleged claim(s) of failure to accommodate religion. From the decision: In this case, the Court finds that the Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint, as amplified in her proposed…

Read More Failure to Accommodate Religion Claim Sufficiently Alleged; Termination Shortly Followed Absence For Simchas Torah
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In Motayne v. Specialty Food Association et al, No. 157671/2023, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 50091(U), 2025 WL 339817 (Sup Ct, Jan. 23, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims of race-based discriminatory termination asserted under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. From the decision: Here, defendants do…

Read More Race-Based Discriminatory Termination Claims Survive Dismissal
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In Torres v. City of New York, No. 161278/2023, 2025 WL 248895 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Jan. 15, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim asserted under the New York City Human Rights Law. From the decision: Plaintiff’s allegations of hostile work environment–including discriminatory remarks,…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Claim, Based on Alleged Discriminatory Remarks, Threats of Termination, and Denial of Benefits, Sufficiently Alleged
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In Campbell v. Authentic Brands Group LLC, No. 155160/2020, 2025 WL 104601 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Jan. 15, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s cause of action for sex-based discrimination against certain defendants. From the decision: Campbell has sufficiently stated a cause of action for sex-based discrimination against…

Read More Sex-Based Discrimination Sufficiently Alleged; Allegations Included Comments About Appearance and Hair Touching
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In Ajala v. Limani 51, LLC, No. 153433/2023, 2024 WL 5169823 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Dec. 17, 2024), the court held that plaintiff sufficiently alleged a hostile work environment claims under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. From the decision: A racially hostile work environment exists when the workplace is…

Read More Hostile Work Environment Claim Survives Dismissal; Court Cites Sex and Race-Based Comments
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