Opinion
2013-06561
06-03-2015
John BUONAGURA, appellant, v. NEW YORK RACING ASSOCIATION, INC., respondent.
Schwartz Kaufman & Livoti, LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Frank J. Livoti of counsel), for appellant. Bee Ready Fishbein Hatter & Donovan, LLP, Mineola, N.Y. (Robert Connolly of counsel), for respondent.
Schwartz Kaufman & Livoti, LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Frank J. Livoti of counsel), for appellant.
Bee Ready Fishbein Hatter & Donovan, LLP, Mineola, N.Y. (Robert Connolly of counsel), for respondent.
Opinion In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for discrimination in employment on the basis of age in violation of Executive Law § 296, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from stated portions of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Butler, J.), dated April 3, 2013, which, inter alia, granted that branch of the defendant's motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the cause of action alleging discrimination in employment on the basis of age in violation of Executive Law § 296.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The plaintiff commenced this action alleging, inter alia, that the defendant wrongfully terminated his employment as a plumbing foreman on the basis of his age, in violation of the New York State Human Rights Law (see Executive Law § 296[1][a] ).
The Supreme Court properly granted that branch of the defendant's motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the cause of action alleging discrimination on the basis of age in violation of Executive Law § 296. The defendant established, prima facie, its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law with evidence showing that the termination of the plaintiff's employment was motivated by a legitimate nondiscriminatory reason (see Miranda v. ESA Hudson Val., Inc. 124 A.D.3d 1158, 2 N.Y.S.3d 668 ; Leon v. State Univ. of N.Y., 120 A.D.3d 771, 991 N.Y.S.2d 359 ; Gordon
v. Kadet, 95 A.D.3d 606, 943 N.Y.S.2d 535 ; Furfero v. St. John's Univ., 94 A.D.3d 695, 941 N.Y.S.2d 639 ; Ospina v. Susquehanna Anesthesia Affiliates, P.C., 23 A.D.3d 797, 803 N.Y.S.2d 751 ). In opposition, the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact (see
Leon v. State Univ. of N.Y., 120 A.D.3d 771, 991 N.Y.S.2d 359 ; Dzikowski v. J.J. Burns & Co., LLC, 98 A.D.3d 468, 949 N.Y.S.2d 426 ; Kelderhouse v. St. Cabrini Home, 259 A.D.2d 938, 686 N.Y.S.2d 914 ).
The plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit.
MASTRO, J.P., BALKIN, SGROI and MILLER, JJ., concur.