Legal Opinion
Perez Rivera v. Hertz Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 11, 1997No. 96 Civ. 4230(BSJ)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
JONES, District Judge.
In this civil rights action, plaintiffs Carmen M. Perez Rivera (“Perez”) and her husband Carlos Chinea Diaz (“Chinea”), both of whom hail from Puerto Rico, allege that defendant, the Hertz Corporation (“Hertz”), refused to rent them a car based on their national origin, forcing them to use another rental agency-
Plaintiffs sue pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1981, New York State’s Executive Law § 290 et seq. (codified as the “New York Human Rights Law” or the “NYHRL”), New York State’s Civil Rights Law §§ 40 & 41, breach of contract, and intentional and…
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