In Julie Richmond v. Alan J. Sorensen, 22 CV 10075 (VB), 2023 WL 4239083 (S.D.N.Y. June 28, 2023), the court denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s sex discrimination claim asserted pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment. After summarizing the black-letter law – and noting that where, as here, the “color of…
Read More Sex Discrimination Claim Plausibly Alleged by Upstate OfficialIn Hill v. Oak Street Health MSO LLC, 2023 WL 4206065 (E.D.Mich. June 27, 2023), the court, inter alia, dismissed plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This case concerns Title VII’s “administrative exhaustion” requirement, which the court explained as follows: Congress provided the EEOC with…
Read More Title VII Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Dismissed; EEOC Charge Included Only Claim Based on Discrete ActsIn Loth v. City of New York, No. 160925/2021, 2023 WL 3456623 (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County May 15, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s gender-based discrimination claims asserted under the New York State and City Human Rights Laws. From the decision: At this early stage of the litigation,…
Read More Sex/Gender Discrimination Claims Sufficiently Alleged; Comments Included “Calendar Girl” RemarkIn Kirstyn Crawford v. American Broadcasting Company, et al., No. 157874/21, 2022-02552, 258, 2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 02611, 2023 WL 3468449 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept., May 16, 2023), the court modified the lower court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s hostile work environment and sex discrimination claims. From the decision: The allegations supporting plaintiff’s hostile work environment and sex…
Read More Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Against ABC Resurrected From DismissalIn Colavecchia v. South Side Area School District, 2023 WL 3043777 (W.D.Pa. April 21, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s hostile work environment sexual harassment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the decision: Under the first prong, a court may conclude that sexual…
Read More Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Claim Survives Dismissal; Allegations Included Repeated Sexual CommentsIn Parker Waichman, LLP v. Mauro, No. 1215/12, 2019-13054, 2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 02014, 2023 WL 2994962 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept., Apr. 19, 2023), the court, inter alia, upheld a lower court’s finding in favor of defendant/counterclaim plaintiff’s sex-based hostile work environment claim asserted under the New York State Human Rights Law. The court summarized the…
Read More Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Upheld Against Law FirmIn Williams v. Genmill LLC, No. 652706/2020, 2023 WL 2650427, 2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 30942(U) (N.Y. Sup Ct, New York County Mar. 27, 2023), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claim of gender discrimination under the New York State Human Rights Law. The plaintiff here alleged, among other things, that defendant…
Read More Absence of Employer/Employee Relationship Dooms NYS Human Rights Law Gender Discrimination ClaimIn Biondolillo v. Livingston Correctional Facility, 2023 WL 2612508 (W.D.N.Y. March 23, 2023), the court, inter alia, granted plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration and reinstated plaintiff’s claim of pregnancy discrimination asserted under the New York State Human Rights Law. The crux of the court’s decision is its determination that plaintiff clearly alleged, in her complaint, that…
Read More Pregnancy Discrimination Claim Resurrected on Reconsideration; Eleventh Amendment Defense InapplicableIn McKenzie v. Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 2023 WL 2403778 (S.D.Ga. March 8, 2023), the court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s race- and gender-based hostile work environment claims. From the decision: At most, there are only two allegations Plaintiff has made that can be connected in any way to her race or…
Read More Hostile Work Environment Claim Dismissed; Comment About Plaintiff’s Thighs, “Baby Daddy” InsufficientIn Stein v. Town of Greenburgh et al, No. 21-CV-05673 (PMH), 2023 WL 2432574 (S.D.N.Y. March 8, 2023), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s sex-based hostile work environment claim asserted under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Here’s the core of court’s decision on that point: A claim…
Read More Title VII Sex-Based Hostile Work Environment Claim Survives Dismissal; “Continuing Violation” Doctrine Applied