Legal Opinion
Thomas v. Istar Financial, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 17, 2010No. Docket Nos. 07-5327-cv (L), 07-5510-cv (XAP)PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Per curiam
In August 2003, iStar Financial, Inc. (“iStar”) fired Kenneth Thomas. A year and a half later, Thomas sued iStar and one of his supervisors there, Ed Baron, (collectively “defendants”) for various violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and parallel provisions of the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”), N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 8-101 et seq. After a trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Marrero, /.), a jury found that Thomas’s termination was in retaliation for complaints he had made about Baron, and it…
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