City of New York v. New York State Division of Human Rights

—Determination of respondent State Division of Human Rights dated July 29, 1998, inter alia, awarding respondent claimant $100,000 for mental anguish, unanimously modified, on the facts, to reduce such award to $50,000, and the proceeding brought pursuant to Executive Law § 298 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Phyllis Gangel-Jacob, J.], entered September 27, 1999) is otherwise disposed of by confirming the remainder of the determination, without costs.

The award was based on substantial evidence that petitioners’ acts of unlawful discrimination against…