Matthews v. City of New York

270 A.D.2d 45, 704 N.Y.S.2d 49, 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2559

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: March 7, 2000
• Status: Published

Opinion

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Beatrice Shainswit, J.), entered October 27, 1998, which denied petitioner’s application to annul respondent’s determination terminating her employment as a provisional caseworker with the Administration for Children’s Services, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner’s submissions, which adduced no facts tending to show either that her job performance was satisfactory or that respondent was enforcing a dress code that allowed men, but not women, to wear sexually provocative or otherwise inappropriate clothes, fail to make out a prima facie case of discrimination based on sex (see, McDonnell Douglas Corp. v Green, 411 US 792, 802). We note that respondent adduced abundant evidence showing reasons for being dissatisfied with petitioner entirely apart from her manner of dress. Absent a prima facie showing of discrimination, the mixed-motive analysis of Price Waterhouse v Hopkins (490 US 228) is inapplicable. Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Wallach, Andrias and Friedman, JJ.