Sexual Harassment Plaintiff Alleges Witness Intimidation and Post-Termination...
Here are recently-filed papers – including the supporting Affirmation, Opposition, and Reply (without exhibits) – relating to plaintiff Hanna Bouveng’s request for a temporary restraining order and/or...
View ArticleConditioning Return to Work on “Hooking Up” With “De Facto Supervisor” is...
In Figueroa v. RSquared NY Inc. (EDNY March 3, 2015), the Eastern District of New York held that plaintiff stated a claim for “quid pro quo” sexual harassment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of...
View ArticleCourt Upholds Jury’s Verdict that Male Plaintiff Endured Quid Pro Quo Sexual...
In Lashley v. New Life Bus. Inst., Inc., No. 13 CIV. 2683 BMC, 2015 WL 1014128 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 9, 2015), the Eastern District of New York upheld a jury verdict in favor of Corey Lashley on his quid pro...
View ArticleQuid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment Claim Fails Where Too Much Time Passes Between...
In Figueroa v. Johnson, 2015 WL 2454065 (EDNY May 22, 2015), the Eastern District of New York dismissed plaintiff’s “quid pro quo” sexual harassment claim due to lack of temporal proximity. The court...
View ArticleEEOC Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Upstate Subway Franchisee
Subway has been associated with some bad press lately. Below is a sexual harassment lawsuit, captioned EEOC v. Draper Development LLC d/b/a Subway, 15-cv-00877 (NDNY 7/21/15), filed against an upstate...
View ArticleParole Officer Sufficiently Alleges Sexual Harassment Under NYC Human Rights Law
In Nunez v. New York State Dep’t of Corr. & Cmty. Supervision, No. 14-CV-6647 JMF, 2015 WL 4605684 (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2015), the court held that plaintiff – a parole officer – plausibly alleged...
View ArticleHiring of Better-Qualified Candidate, Notwithstanding “Unprofessional and...
In Rodriguez v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp., No. 14 CIV. 4960 BMC, 2015 WL 5229850 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 8, 2015), the Eastern District of New York granted defendant summary judgment on...
View ArticleCourt Dismisses Superintendent’s Sexual Harassment Claims
In Britt v. Thermald Realty I, LP, No. 13 CIV. 8289 KPF, 2015 WL 4922977 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 18, 2015), the court dismissed the plaintiff’s claims of “quid pro quo” and “hostile work environment” sexual...
View ArticleIndividual Liability For Sexual Harassment Requires Participation, Court Holds
In New York, particularly New York City, employees are protected against discrimination (including sexual harassment and retaliation) by various laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of...
View ArticleWhat is “Quid Pro Quo” Sexual Harassment?
“Sexual harassment” is one type of unlawful discrimination based on “sex” under various statutes, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The term “quid pro quo” is a Latin phrase that...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Lawsuit Against NYU School of Medicine and Others
In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on January 19, 2016, Mikolaenko v. NYU School of Medicine et al (16-cv-00413), plaintiff – a doctor – asserts (among other things) that her supervisor...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Allegations Insufficiently Alleged, Notwithstanding...
In Lekettey v. City of New York, No. 15-1169-CV, 2016 WL 482109 (2d Cir. Feb. 8, 2016), the court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s complaint alleging sexual harassment. There are...
View ArticleDiscrimination Claims Under Comparatively Broad NYC Human Rights Law Were Not...
In Llanos v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 132 A.D.3d 823, 824, 18 N.Y.S.3d 666, 667 (N.Y. App. Div. 2d Dept. 2015), the Second Dept. reversed a state court decision dismissing plaintiff’s claims under section...
View ArticleProfessor Files Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit Against Columbia...
In a lawsuit recently filed in Manhattan federal court (Ravina v. Columbia University, 16-cv-02137), the plaintiff – an Assistant Professor of Finance at Columbia University – alleges (among other...
View ArticleSDNY Upholds Jury Verdict in Favor of Hanna Bouveng on Quid Pro Quo Sexual...
In Bouveng v. NYG Capital LLC et al, No. 14 CIV. 5474 (PGG), 2016 WL 1312139 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2016), Judge Gardephe – in a lengthy and thoughtful opinion – ruled on defendants’ post-trial motions...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Manhattan Law Firm JS Barkats PLLC
In a lawsuit filed this week, captioned Villalta v. JS Barkats PLLC and Sunny Barkats, 16-cv-2772 (SDNY filed April 13, 2016), plaintiff asserts claims of gender discrimination and quid pro quo and...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Title IX Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment,...
In Shalom v. Hunter Coll. of City Univ. of New York, No. 14-3426-CV, 2016 WL 1358607 (2d Cir. Apr. 6, 2016), the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s claims under Title...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Lawsuit Against The Friars Club
In a complaint captioned Almestica v. The New York Friars Club et al (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Index No. 153986/2016 filed May 11, 2016), plaintiff – a receptionist who worked at the Friars Club’s midtown...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Manhattan Auto Care et al – Allegations...
In a lawsuit captioned Gonzalez v. Manhattan Auto Care (NY Sup. Ct. NY Cty. 156078/2016 filed July 21, 2016), plaintiff asserts various claims – including hostile work environment and quid pro quo...
View ArticleCourt Dismisses Sexual Harassment Claims Based on Conduct of Non-Supervisory...
In Felmine v. Star, No. 13-cv-2641, 2016 WL 4005763 (E.D.N.Y. July 25, 2016), the court granted defendants’ summary judgment motion and dismissed plaintiff’s claims for (1) quid pro quo sexual...
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