Sotomayor v. City of New York

Plaintiff-appellant Gladys Sotomayor appeals from the district court’s judgment dismissing her claims of employment discrimination and retaliation under federal, state, and New York City law. We hold that the district court properly granted summary judgment dismissing her claims. Accordingly, we affirm.

BACKGROUND

Sotomayor, a schoolteacher, is a fifty-six year old woman of Hispanic descent. She has been employed by the New York City Department of Education since 1999. So-tomayor claims that, beginning in the 2007-2008 school year, defendants unfairly reprimanded her, observed her classroom…