Ponticelli v. Zurich American Insurance Group

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over HRL claim in a Title VII action because of potential jury confusion and unsettled issue of state law
• two-and-a-half months between protected activity and discipline “is hardly the close proximity of time” in establishing a causal link
• “In the sexual harassment context, it appears that for an IIED claim to survive a summary judgment motion, sexual batteryshould be alleged.”
• “[T]he unavailability of pretrial discovery . . . does not 17 render the forum inadequate.”
• “[Defendant] cannot be deemed to be acting under color of state law by virtue of the fact that it is licensed to conduct business in New York.”
• two and a half months is “hardly the close proximity of time contemplated . . . for allowing a plaintiff to establish the ‘causal connection’ element of [a] retaliation claim”

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