City of New York v. Continental Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting a claim of marital-status discrimination under the New York State Human Rights Law (“NYSHRL”) by an employee who was fired not because she was married, but because she was married to her manager
• “the plain and ordinary meaning of ‘marital status' is the social condition enjoyed by an individual by reason of his or her having participated or failed to participate in a marriage”
• \the plain and ordinary meaning of `marital status' is the social condition enjoyed by an individual by reason of his or her having participated or failed to participate in a marriage\
• ‘when one is queried about one’s ‘marital status,’ the usual and complete answer would be expected to be a choice among ‘married,’ ‘single,’ etc., but would not be expected to include an identification of one’s present or former spouse. . . .”
• anti-nepotism rule was not marital status discrimination
• anti-nepotism rule was not marital status discrimination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).