American International Group, Inc. v. Rosa

—In a CPLR article 78 proceeding transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Beatrice Shainswit, J.), entered on March 9, 1994, the determination of respondent Commissioner of the State Division of Human Rights, dated November 17, 1993, which, inter alia, awarded the complainant damages for back pay in the amount of $38,639.83 and for mental anguish in the amount of $50,000 and interest on the back pay award from October 16, 1985, upon a finding that petitioner discriminated against him on the basis of his race, is unanimously annulled and the petition is granted…