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Plaintiff’s Age-Discrimination Lawsuit Properly Survived Summary Judgment

The First Department, over an extensive dissent, determined defendant’s motion for summary judgment in an age-discrimination suit was properly denied. Plaintiff alleged she was terminated because of her age and was able to raise a question of fact about whether the reasons for termination proffered by the defendant were pretextual. The core of plaintiff’s allegations were remarks made by the person who replaced plaintiff as executive director of defendant-club—remarks noting plaintiff looked “tired” and perhaps needed to “rest” or questions whether plaintiff was “up for” meetings or whether a meeting might be “too much for” her:

…[W]e find that when plaintiff’s testimony is credited for purposes of this motion, these remarks directly reflect age-based discriminatory bias  …, and raise an inference of age-related bias sufficient to make out plaintiff’s prima facie case of employment discrimination … . In concluding that no inference of discriminatory motive can be drawn from this evidence, the dissent fails to abide by the precept that “all of the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion, and all reasonable inferences must be resolved in that party’s favor” … .

Plaintiff has … met her burden of showing pretext by “respond[ing] with some evidence that at least one of the reasons proffered by defendant is false, misleading, or incomplete” … . Rollins v Fencers Club, Inc., 2015 NY Slip Op 03769, 1st Dept 5-7-15

 

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