In Jackson, Robert v. American Civil Liberties Union, Inc. et al, 21-CV-5037 (JPO), 2024 WL 4766983 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 13, 2024), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims of race discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981. After summarizing the McDonnell…
Read More Race Discrimination Claims Survive Summary Judgment Against ACLUIn Olin v. Rochester City School District, 2022 WL 967707 (W.D.N.Y. March 31, 2022), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s gender discrimination claims asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York State Human Rights Law. In evaluating plaintiff’s discriminatory-demotion claims, the court applied the…
Read More Gender-Based Discriminatory-Demotion Claim, Arising From Alleged “Selective Enforcement” of Lunch Break Regulation, Survives Summary JudgmentIn Pollock v. Dermot Shea & City of New York, 20-cv-6273, 2021 WL 4962736 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 26, 2021), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s gender discrimination claims against the defendants under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York City Human Rights Law. Initially, the court…
Read More Court: Gender Discrimination Claims Sufficiently Alleged Against City of New York and Individual DefendantIn Blanc v. The City of New York et al, No. 154032/2020, 2021 WL 1022595, 2021 N.Y. Slip Op. 30837(U) (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 17, 2021), the court, inter alia, held that plaintiff – a 57 year-old Black man of Haitian national origin – sufficiently alleged facts to make out a claim…
Read More Age/Race/Color/National Origin Discrimination Claims Sufficiently Alleged; Plaintiff Alleges Dilution of Job Responsibilities, Demotion, and Salary ReductionIn Carter v. Syracuse City School District et al, 2021 WL 912523 (2d Cir. March 10, 2021) (Summary Order), the Second Circuit held that plaintiff indeed adduced enough facts to reach a jury on her race discrimination claims. From the Order: The district court held that Carter did not establish a prima facie case because…
Read More Teacher’s Race Discrimination Claim May ProceedIn Afrat v. Kimber Manufacturing, No. 2017-01081, 68808/15, 2020 N.Y. Slip Op. 00394, 2020 WL 356185 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., Jan. 22, 2020), the Second Department affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff’s age discrimination claim. Plaintiff commenced an action in federal court, alleging age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and state and…
Read More Age Discrimination Claims Properly Dismissed on Collateral Estoppel and Other Grounds