Jewanta Desardouin v. City of Rochester

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• concluding that plaintiff’s “secret recording[] of conversations,” which “was a felony and a violation of departmental policy,” constituted a “legitimate, non-discriminatory” reason for plaintiff’s termination
• noting that the workplace must have been “severely permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult”
• noting that a showing of repeated advances warrant trial on a sex-based hostile work environment claim even under Title VII’s higher bar
• recognizing termination of employee for violation of departmental policy as legitimate and nondiscriminatory
• explaining that New York Executive Law § 297(9) precludes courts from exercising jurisdiction over discrimination claims first brought before a state or local human rights commission except in certain circumstances not applicable here
• noting that humiliating comments that “persisted on a weekly basis over an interval that lasted at least two and perhaps three months” were sufficient for a hostile work environment claim to survive a motion for summary judgment

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