Sotomayor v. City of New York, No. 12-2319 (2d Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff appealed the district court's dismissal of her claims of employment discrimination and retaliation under federal, state, and New York City law. Plaintiff claimed that defendants unfairly reprimanded her, observed her classroom with unusual frequency, evaluated her classroom performance negatively, and gave her less desirable classroom assignments and duties. She argued that these actions were unwarranted and motivated by discriminatory and retaliatory animus. Defendants acknowledged that they increased their supervision of and attention toward plaintiff, but they contended that they did so to address her performance and behavioral issues. The court concluded that the district court properly granted summary judgment in favor of defendants for substantially the reasons articulated by the district court. With respect to plaintiff's retaliation claims, even if the court assumed that defendants' actions resulted in adverse employment action, no reasonable jury could find that such actions were motivated by a retaliatory animus. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment in its entirety.
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