NYCHRL Age Discrimination Claim Properly Dismissed
In Smith v. Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., 2018 NY Slip Op 03455, 2018 WL 2139339 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept. 2018), the court affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff’s age discrimination claim under the NYC...
View ArticleADEA Claim Dismissed Due to Lack of Administrative Exhaustion
In ANNA WURTZBURGER, Plaintiff, v. EVERETT KORET, JERRY FLORY, JAMY FLORY, and FLORY CORP., Defendants., 16-cv-7897, 2018 WL 2209507, at *4 (S.D.N.Y. May 14, 2018), the court dismissed plaintiff’s...
View ArticleCourt Declines to Adopt “Celebrity Exception” to Public Access to Settlement...
Celebrities – they’re just like us! That is one take-away from a recent Eastern District of New York decision, Jones v. Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., a/k/a Busta Rhymes et al, 16-cv-2194, 2018 WL 2227990...
View ArticleEmployment Discrimination Claims Reinstated Against Father Reilly et al
In Boliak v. Reilly, 2018 NY Slip Op 03745 (App. Div. 1st Dept. May 24, 2018), the court overturned the dismissal[1]Boliak v. Reilly, 2017 NY Slip Op 32010, Index No. 153941/2016, Judge Erika Edwards,...
View ArticleAge Discrimination Complaint Dismissed; Court Rejects Argument that...
In Parron v. Verizon New York, Inc. et al, 17-cv-3848, 2018 WL 2538221 (S.D.N.Y. May 15, 2018), the court granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissed plaintiff’s age discrimination...
View ArticleHostile Work Environment Claim Dismissed; “Unprofessional” and “Upsetting”...
In Kobos v. Target Corporation et al, 15–cv-5573, 2018 WL 2943575 (E.D.N.Y. June 12, 2018), the court, inter alia, dismissed plaintiff’s hostile work environment claim. The court explained the legal...
View ArticleAge, Gender Discrimination Claims Against Barclays Capital Subject to Binding...
In Tsoflias v. Barclays Capital Inc., 2018 Ny slip Op 31184(U), 2018 WL 2971165 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. June 6, 2018), the court held that, in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Epic Sys. Corp. v...
View ArticleCourt Dismisses Age/Race Discrimination and Retaliation Claims Against the...
In Napoleoni v. NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation et al, 18-cv-2578, 2018 WL 3038502 (E.D.N.Y. June 18, 2018), the court, inter alia, dismissed plaintiff’s claims of race discrimination, age...
View ArticleCourt Affirms Dismissal of Freelance Photographer’s Age Discrimination and...
In Miller v. News Am., 2018 NY Slip Op 03946 (App. Div. 1st Dept. June 5, 2018), the court affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff’s age discrimination and retaliation under the New York State and City...
View ArticleHostile Work Environment Claim Survives Dismissal
In Smith v. The City of New York, 16-cv-9244, 2018 WL 3392872 (S.D.N.Y. July 12, 2018), the court, inter alia, held that plaintiff sufficiently alleged a hostile work environment under Title VII of the...
View ArticleAge Discrimination Plaintiffs Permitted to Amend Complaint, Court Rules
In Wander v. St. John’s Univ., 2018 NY Slip Op 05353 (App. Div. 2d Dept. July 18, 2018), an age discrimination case, the court held that plaintiffs should be permitted to supplement the complaint to,...
View ArticleDispute as to Discriminatory Intent Supports Denial of Summary Judgment as to...
In Refermat v. Lancaster Central School District, 14-CV-0712, 2018 WL 3640220 (W.D.N.Y. Aug. 1, 2018), the court adopted a Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation to grant defendant’s summary...
View ArticleHostile Work Environment Claim Survives Summary Judgment; Evidence Included...
In McLeod v. General Vision Services, Inc. et al, 13-cv-6824, 2018 WL 3745662 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 6, 2018), the court, inter alia, denied defendants’ motion on plaintiff’s race- and age-based hostile work...
View ArticleDiscrimination Lawsuit Against Bloomberg et al
In a recently-filed lawsuit, captioned Johnna Ayres v. Bloomberg L.P. Michael Bloomberg, and Lawrence Diamond, N.Y. Sup. Ct., Kings Cty., Index No. 517214/2018, filed Aug. 23, 2018, the plaintiff...
View ArticleAge Discrimination Claim Against CUNY Survives Summary Judgment
In a recent Southern District case, Dickinson v. City University of New York, 2018 WL 4333986 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 11, 2018), the court (inter alia) denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment on...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Discrimination Claims; “Write Up” Threat...
In Vaigasi v. Solow Management Corporation, et al. , 17-784-cv (2d Cir. Sept. 14, 2018) (Summary Order), the court affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff’s claims, including those for gender, religious,...
View ArticleFlorida Resident’s Discrimination Claims Against Imus Dismissed
In Wolf v. Imus, 2018 NY Slip Op 51361(U) (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Sept. 27, 2018) (J. d’Auguste), the court, inter alia, dismissed plaintiff’s (an 80 year-old Florida resident) age discrimination claims against...
View ArticleAge Discrimination Claims Dismissed, Despite Younger Replacement
In Parsons v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 16-CV-0408, 2018 WL 4861379 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2018), the court, inter alia, granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s age discrimination...
View ArticleSexual Harassment and Other Claims Discontinued Against Predecessor Entity
In Schwartz v. Integrated Dental Sys., LLC et al, 2018 NY Slip Op 32574(U), Index No. 157816/2017 (Sup. Ct. NY Cty. Oct. 12, 2018), plaintiff asserted claims of age discrimination, gender...
View ArticleAge Discrimination Case Dismissed, Despite “Old Timer” Comments
In Downey v. Adloox, Inc., 16-CV-1689, 2018 WL 5266875 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 23, 2018), the court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s federal and state age discrimination claims....
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