Pichardo v. New York City Department of Education

Plaintiff failed to establish that defendants’ conduct contributed to her delay in commencing this action and that therefore defendants should be estopped from asserting the defense of the one-year statute of limitations applicable to her non-tort claims of gender and disability discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and breach of contract (see Nowinski v City of New York, 189 AD2d 674 [1st Dept 1993]). Moreover, she failed to establish due diligence on her part in ascertaining the limitations period for commencing the action (see Walker v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 36 AD3d…