Matter of Rosenthal v Roosevelt Is. Operating Corp.
2022 NY Slip Op 05965 [209 AD3d 598]
October 25, 2022
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, November 30, 2022


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 In the Matter of Susan Rosenthal, Appellant,
v
Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation et al., Respondents.

Storch Byrne LLP, New York (Steven G. Storch of counsel), for appellant.

Melick & Porter LLP, New York (Holly G. Rogers of counsel), for Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, respondent.

Letitia James, Attorney General, New York (Stephen J. Yanni of counsel), for State of New York and others, respondents.

Judgment (denominated a decision and order), Supreme Court, New York County (Arthur F. Engoron, J.), entered on or about July 7, 2021, denying the petition to annul respondents' determination, which terminated petitioner's employment at respondent Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, and to reinstate her employment, and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Order, same court and Justice, entered on or about December 13, 2021, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied petitioner's motion for consolidation with a plenary action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The determination to terminate petitioner's employment was not arbitrary and capricious (see Matter of Pell v Board of Educ. of Union Free School Dist. No. 1 of Towns of Scarsdale & Mamaroneck, Westchester County, 34 NY2d 222, 232 [1974]). The findings of respondents' investigation constitute legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for her termination, and serve to defeat the claims of discrimination and racial animus raised in the petition (Matter of Khan v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 144 AD3d 600, 601 [1st Dept 2016], lv denied 29 NY3d 905 [2017]).

Since we find that that court properly denied the petition, petitioner's request for consolidation is moot.

We have considered petitioner's remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Webber, J.P., Singh, Moulton, González, Pitt, JJ.