Legal Opinion
Peavey v. Polytechnic Institute of New York
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided October 17, 1991No. CV-91-0149PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GLASSER, District Judge:
Defendants Polytechnic Institute of New York (“Polytechnic”) and Cullen & Dykman move to dismiss plaintiff’s amended complaint for failure to state a claim. 1
The following allegations can be discerned from the amended complaint. Plaintiff is an orthodox muslim. Polytechnic is a private university against which plaintiff litigated with partial success a religious employment discrimination charge before the New York State Division of Human Rights (“DoHR”). Unsatisfied with the result of the DoHR proceeding, plaintiff sued Polytechnic in a federal…
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