Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2003

Perkins v. Lynch

Perkins v. Lynch
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 14, 2003
309 A.D.2d 587; 765 N.Y.S.2d 364; 2003 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10564
Perkins v. Lynch

Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis York, J.), entered March 15, 2002, which, in an action for employment discrimination based on race, inter alia, granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The action was properly dismissed on the ground that the allegations of the complaint itself establish that defendants had good cause to terminate plaintiffs employment, namely, her refusal to respond to inquiries about an arrest. Concur — Ellerin, J.P., Williams, Lerner, Friedman and Gonzalez, JJ.

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