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 ClaimIn 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 ClaimIn 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 HoldsIn 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 ClaimIn 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 AllegedIn 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 TerminationIn Texiera v. Services for the Underserved, Inc., No. 152677/2020, 2025 WL 355451 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Jan. 23, 2025), an employment discrimination action, the court granted plaintiff’s motion to hold a subpoenaed witness in contempt for failing to appear for their deposition. From the decision: In this employment discrimination action, plaintiff moves…
Read More Court Grants Employment Discrimination Plaintiff’s Motion for Contempt Against Non-Party Witness For Failure to Appear for DepositionIn De Longchamp v. Equinox Holdings Co., Inc., No. 153431/2021 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Sep. 04, 2024), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims of retaliation against defendant Equinox under the New York State Human Rights Law. From the decision: Plaintiff has, however, met his de minimis…
Read More Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment Against EquinoxIn Longchamp v. Equinox Holdings Co., Inc., No. 153431/2021, 2024 WL 4041714 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Sep. 04, 2024), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims of gender and sexual orientation-based hostile work environment under the New York City Human Rights Law. This case is a good…
Read More Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Under NYC Human Rights Law Survives Summary JudgmentIn Root v. City University of New York, No. 157151/2020, 2021 WL 4352697 (N.Y. Sup Ct, N.Y. Cty. Sept. 24, 2021) (Amended Sept. 27, 2021), the court held that plaintiff, a white/Caucasian Baruch College professor, sufficiently alleged race discrimination under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. Plaintiff’s allegations concern a document called…
Read More White Baruch College Professor’s Race Discrimination Claims Survive Motion to Dismiss