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Top NY Court Blinks in 'First Department' WPP Discrimination Power Play
November 29th, 2008
In a regular session of the New York Court of Appeals on October 23rd 2008, and under the cover of a contentious election year and an economic tsunami, this state's top court, the New York Court of Appeals (NYCOA) declined to hear the appeal of Kathryn Jordan v. Bates Advertising 118785-99, an important "perceived disability" case filed by a woman with Multiple Sclerosis. The appeal was filed by Jordan after the First Department Appellate Division reversed the May 2005 jury verdict and the Final Judgment of the trial judge, Honorable Rolando T. Acosta, entered in November 2007 to uphold the jury verdict and adopted the arguments of WPP's appellate and trial attorneys that victims of...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-11-29)
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