Legal Opinion
Yvette Cruz v. Coach Stores, Inc., David Otani, William Betts, Diane Lewis, Sara Lee Corporation, and Herve Heriveaux
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 20, 2000No. Docket 98-9654PublishedCited by 781 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns plaintiff-appellant Yvette Cruz’s claims of race and sex discrimination against her former employer, defendant-appellee Coach Stores, Inc. (“Coach”). Cruz brought this action in 1996, claiming that Coach had violated federal, state, and city civil rights laws by, inter alia, failing to promote her and terminating her because of her race, retaliating against her for exercising Title VII-protected rights, and tolerating an environment of discriminatory harassment. On September 25, 1997, the district court (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge) dismissed Cruz’s…
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