It is still very easy to find judges who either haven’t bothered to read the City Human Rights Law, or who, having read it, have decided that they’ll ignore it. As such, decisions stating that “analysis of City law claims parallels that of state and federal claims” continue to be cranked out. There is, however, some slow progress being made. In the three years since the Local Civil Rights Restoration Act was passed, some federal and state judges have begun to realize that the legislation firmly rejected rote parallelism.
