Employment 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 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 Buscaino v. Dircksen & Talleyrand, Inc. and Ariel Echevarria, 22-CV-7572 (AMD) (PK), 2025 WL 777085 (E.D.N.Y. March 11, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s sex-based hostile work environment claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the New York State Human Rights Law, and…

Read More Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claims Survive Summary Judgment; Evidence Included Sex-Based Criticism
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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 Jones v. Fluor Facility & Plant Services, No. 24-5249, 2025 WL 707869 (6th Cir. 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a lower court’s award of summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s race-based hostile work environment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After summarizing the elements…

Read More Race-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Withstands Summary Judgment; 6th Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment Dismissal
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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 Bamba v. United States Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, 2025 WL 670188 (2d Cir. 2025), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s claim of race-based hostile work environment asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: Bamba’s hostile…

Read More 2nd Circuit: Title VII Race-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Properly Dismissed
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In Feliz v. Manhattan Restorative Health Sciences, Inc., No. 161563/2021, 2025 WL 574304 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Feb. 21, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims of disability discrimination asserted under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. The court summarized the basic legal…

Read More Disability Discrimination Claims Survive Summary Judgment; Issues Existed as to Pretextual Nature of Termination
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In a recent case, Glapion v. Saks Fifth Avenue, LLC, No. 24-2232, 2025 WL 506649 (E.D.La. Feb. 14, 2025), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s sex-based hostile work environment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: To state a claim for hostile work…

Read More Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim, Based in Part on Alleged Harassment by Customer, Survives Dismissal
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In Scribner v. State of New York Office of Court Administration, 6:24-cv-00252 (AMN/TWD), 2025 WL 487428 (N.D.N.Y. Feb. 13, 2025), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings on plaintiff’s hostile cork environment/constructive discharge claim. From the decision: As to Plaintiff’s second claim, Defendants primarily argue that Plaintiff has failed to…

Read More Hostile Work Environment / Constructive Discharge Claim Dismissed
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