Hall v. Reliant Realty Servs.

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Decided: March 13, 2025
• Docket: 24-710-cv
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

24-710-cv Hall v. Reliant Realty Servs.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

SUMMARY ORDER

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At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 13th day of March, two thousand twenty-five.

PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR., ALISON J. NATHAN, Circuit Judges. ------------------------------------------------------------------ DEAN HALL,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v. No. 24-710-cv

RELIANT REALTY SERVICES, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION,

Defendants-Appellees.

------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR APPELLANT: Dean Hall, pro se, Brooklyn, NY

FOR APPELLEE RELIANT REALTY Stuart Weinberger, SERVICES: Weinberger & Weinberger, LLP, New York, NY

FOR APPELLEE SERVICE EMPLOYEES Andrew L. Strom, Office of INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL the General Counsel, SEIU 32BJ: Local 32BJ, New York, NY

Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of New York (Hector Gonzalez, Judge).

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED,

AND DECREED that the District Court’s judgment is AFFIRMED.

Plaintiff-Appellant Dean Hall, proceeding pro se, appeals from a March 6,

2024 judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New

York (Gonzalez, J.) dismissing his claims under the Americans with Disabilities

Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., against Defendants-Appellees Reliant Realty

Services (“Reliant”) and Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ (“the

Union”) for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. We assume

the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts and the record of prior

proceedings, to which we refer only as necessary to explain our decision to

affirm.

2 “We review de novo a district court’s dismissal of a complaint pursuant to

Rule 12(b)(6)” of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Miller v. Metro. Life. Ins.

Co., 979 F.3d 118, 121 (2d Cir. 2020) (quotation marks omitted).

Hall first argues that the District Court erred when it dismissed his ADA

claim against Reliant as time barred. We disagree. In New York, a plaintiff

alleging an ADA violation has 300 days from the date of the allegedly

discriminatory act to file a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission (“EEOC”). See Harris v. City of New York, 186 F.3d 243, 247 & n.2 (2d

Cir. 1999); 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-5(e)(1), 12117(a). The District Court correctly

concluded that Hall did not meet this 300-day deadline. In his December 2, 2022

EEOC charge, Hall asserted that the “most recent [discriminatory] job action”

that he suffered occurred on November 16, 2021, which was more than 300 days

prior to the charge. Supp. App’x 16. Hall contends for the first time on appeal

that his EEOC deadline should have been equitably tolled in light of his mental

health issues, but he had an opportunity to make the same argument before the

District Court. We will not consider an argument raised for the first time on

appeal, even when the argument is made by a pro se litigant. See Zerilli-Edelglass

v. N.Y.C. Transit Auth., 333 F.3d 74, 80 (2d Cir. 2003).

3 Hall further explains that he missed the EEOC’s 300-day deadline because

the Union was slow to process his grievance against Reliant and failed to advise

him about the deadline. We again decline to consider this argument because

Hall raises it for the first time on appeal. Id.

We have considered Hall’s remaining arguments and conclude that they

are without merit. For the foregoing reasons, the District Court’s judgment is

AFFIRMED.

FOR THE COURT: Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk of Court