In Syeed v. Bloomberg L.P., 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 01330, 2024 WL 1097279, at **3-4 (Mar. 14, 2024), the New York Court of Appeals held that New York State and City Human Rights Laws apply to out-of-state job applicants who are seeking employment in New York, thus clarifying its prior decision in Hoffman v. Parade Publ'ns, 15 N.Y.3d 285 (2010), which held that the plaintiff had to show some impact in New York for the laws to apply.
Plaintiff Nafeesa Syeed, a South Asian-American woman, brought suit against defendant Bloomberg for race and sex discrimination under the New York State and New York City Human Rights Laws. She alleged that in 2018, she applied for...
