Legal Opinion
Grafe v. Iona College
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 29, 2001PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Seymour Schwartz, J.H.O.), entered May 3, 2000, which, after a nonjury trial, dismissed plaintiff’s complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The complaint in this action for retaliatory discharge was properly dismissed in view of plaintiffs failure to make out a prima facie case (see, Matter of Pace Univ. v New York City Commn. on Human Rights, 85 NY2d 125). While plaintiff’s comments regarding a “glass ceiling” with respect to tenured female professors in defendant’s History Department could constitute a protected activity under title VII of the…
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