Opinion
No. 4288.
February 17, 2011.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (O. Peter Sherwood, J.), entered August 5, 2009, which granted defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Olufunmibi Awoshiley, appellant pro se.
Edwards Angell Palmer Dodge LLP, New York (Rory J. McEvoy of counsel), for respondents.
Before: Tom, J.P., Saxe, DeGrasse, Freedman and Román, JJ.
Plaintiffs retaliatory discharge claim fails to state a cause of action because it does not allege any conduct by defendants that violates the Executive Law ( see Executive Law § 296 [e]; Forrest v Jewish Guild for the Blind, 3 NY3d 295, 312-313). His defamation claim is pleaded with insufficient particularity ( see Manas v VMS Assoc., LLC, 53 AD3d 451, 454-455). The remaining cause of action, civil conspiracy, is not an independent cause of action in New York ( American Preferred Prescription v Health Mgt., 252 AD2d 414, 416).