Legal Opinion
Forrest v. Jewish Guild for the Blind
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 26, 2004PublishedCited by 537 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Kaye.
Racial discrimination has no place in society. Antidiscrimination laws must therefore be strictly enforced to root out this scourge whenever it occurs. But it is simply not the law that every dispute that arises between people of different races constitutes employment discrimination, or that every wrongful act perpetrated in the course of such a dispute is committed because of race. Simply put, animosity on the job is not actionable; unequal treatment based on racial animus is. Because plaintiff has failed to raise a triable issue of fact that she was…
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