However, the employee, who was fired after complaining about the memes, advanced retaliation and ADA failure-to-accommodate claims.
Despite her coworkers’ statements and memes in a group text chat—including a photo referring to former President Joseph Biden as “Gropey” and of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “Dopey,” as well as a cartoon of Representative Nancy Pelosi standing next to Hitler—a Jewish interim assistant principal in a New York public school, who was fired after complaining to the deputy superintendent about the comments, was unable to advance her Title VII religious- and sex-based hostile work environment claims. The federal court in New York, however, denied summary judgment against her ADA failure-to-accommodate claim, finding ample evidence to suggest the severe mental health issues she developed following her termination substantially limited her major life activities of working and socializing. Her Title VII retaliation claim also survived her employer’s motion (Isasi v. Department of Education of the City of New York, No. 21-cv-03298 (NCM) (JAM) (E.D.N.Y. July 27, 2026)).
Group text chat. The long-tenured New York City Department of Education employee was hired as an interim assistant principal at a public high school in 2018. A few weeks later, another assistant principal started a group text chat with the vice principals and principal so they could easily communicate with each other. Many of the participants, however, regularly sent...
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