United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · 2019-03-28
42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: civil; City Comptroller's Office employee's retaliation, discrimination, hostile-environment and constructive-discharge claims pleaded directly under Section 1981 against the City and four municipal employees; Rule 12(b)(6) motion granted as to every Section 1981 claim without leave to replead; parallel Section 1983 claims decided separately (S.D.N.Y.); result: claimant-lost; claim:
Uncertainty
opinion: the IR text is capped at 60000 chars; the end of the opinion is not in the record. The Section 1981 ruling (@14257..17642) is complete.
Element state-remedial-route: holding: the element is the Section 1983 route for state-actor impairment; "not-satisfied" here records that the direct Section 1981 claims were dismissed because that route is exclusive, not that a Section 1983-borne Section 1981 claim failed
Element state-remedial-route: route: the Monell policy-or-custom dismissal of the Section 1983 claims against the City (@19755..22530) is not tied by the court to Section 1981 and has no block
Misfit
None recorded
B · Case × element grid
Top-level elements follow claim order in panels of up to six elements. Case rows repeat across panels. Every recorded block retains its holding and basis; multiple blocks are not merged into a case-level verdict. ✓ satisfied · ✗ not satisfied · ○ not reached · · not addressed. Muted blocks are not counted. Sub-element evidence remains on case and element pages.
Elements 1–6 of 15
| Case | Persons protected by equal contractual rights | Plaintiff has rights in an existing or proposed contract | Formation performance termination or contractual benefits | Judicial intentional-race-discrimination requirement | Judicial but-for causation of contractual injury | Nongovernmental impairment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gonzalez v. City of N.Y. — 377 F. Supp. 3d 273 (2019) · United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed |
Elements 7–12 of 15
| Case | Judicial section 1983 remedial route for state-law impairment | Opposition to racial impairment of contract rights | Judicial defendant-knowledge requirement for retaliation | Judicial material-adversity requirement for retaliation | Judicial causation requirement for retaliatory injury | Contract and retaliation scope with noncontract clauses identified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gonzalez v. City of N.Y. — 377 F. Supp. 3d 273 (2019) · United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed |
Elements 13–15 of 15
| Case | Judicial hostile-environment threshold and attribution | Claim-specific limitations and accrual | Compensatory equitable punitive and fee remedies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gonzalez v. City of N.Y. — 377 F. Supp. 3d 273 (2019) · United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · 2019 (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | · not addressed | · not addressed | · not addressed |
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
| Case | Element | Holding and scope | Pattern | Exact source quotations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gonzalez v. City of N.Y. — 377 F. Supp. 3d 273 (2019) · United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · 2019 — not · law (42usc1981: author: Flash2 · QA: FIX (Fable, neov2/cases/TRIAGE-Flash.md)) | Judicial section 1983 remedial route for state-law impairment | not Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: law What fails is the direct Section 1981 cause of action against state actors (Jett / Duplan); the court did not decide any Section 1981 element on the facts. The Section 1983 claims are analysed afterwards on equal-protection and First Amendment grounds, not as carriers of Section 1981 rights. | claims-pleaded-directly-under-section-1981-against-city-and-municipal-employees-in-both-capacities | In Duplan v. City of New York , however, the Second Circuit held that " § 1981 does not provide a separate private right of action against state actors."Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_377.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/377/0273-01; Unicode character offsets [14422:14575] (end exclusive); SHA-256 1597bf0a1c182a7427ca838920a992bc7e17f3d55c12a25d887d169a24ab1f0d.Therefore, Duplan 's holding applies to the Individual Defendants and bars Mr. Gonzalez from asserting claims under § 1981 against them.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_377.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/377/0273-01; Unicode character offsets [15952:16088] (end exclusive); SHA-256 1597bf0a1c182a7427ca838920a992bc7e17f3d55c12a25d887d169a24ab1f0d.Therefore, Defendants' motion to dismiss the claims that Mr. Gonzalez asserts under § 1981 in counts one through seven is GRANTED.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f_supp_3d_377.jsonl#/f-supp-3d/377/0273-01; Unicode character offsets [17220:17350] (end exclusive); SHA-256 1597bf0a1c182a7427ca838920a992bc7e17f3d55c12a25d887d169a24ab1f0d. |