Nafeesa Syeed, Appellant, v Bloomberg L.P., Respondent., 2024 N.Y. LEXIS 293

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HOLDINGS: [1]-The Second Circuit asked how Hoffman's impact test governs a situation where, as here, a nonresident plaintiff alleges a failure to promote or hire. The court concludes that the City and State Human Rights Laws protect nonresidents who proactively sought an actual New York City- or State-based job opportunity. A nonresident who has been discriminatorily denied a job in New York City or State loses the chance to work and perhaps live within those geographic areas. The prospective employee personally feels the impact of a discriminatory refusal to promote or hire. Applying a liberal construction of "inhabitants" and "individual within this state," Executive Law § 290 [3], Administrative Code of the City of NY § 8-101, a prospective inhabitant or employee denied a job opportunity because of discriminatory conduct fits within the Human Rights Laws' protection.