May 12, 2022
The Second Circuit refused Thursday to revive a nonbinary Ithaca, New York, cop’s lawsuit claiming she was discriminated and retaliated against for being gay and gender-nonconforming, saying reasonable jurors couldn’t conclude the city’s police department had violated the law.
May 05, 2022
An Ithaca police officer's counsel told the Second Circuit on Thursday that a trial court wrongly refused to let jurors assess whether she was discriminated and retaliated against for being gay and gender-nonconforming, but some judges questioned whether she was ousted too long after she first raised bias concerns.
April 29, 2022
In the coming week, the Second Circuit will hear a police officer's lawsuit accusing the city of Ithaca, New York's police department of discriminating against her because of her sexual orientation and gender identity. Here, Law360 looks at that case as well as other major labor and employment cases on the docket in the Empire State.