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MARINE BANK v. HUMAN RIGHTS

75 N.Y.2d 240 (1989)

Marine Midland Bank, N. A., Appellant, v. New York State Division of Human Rights et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin F. Idzik for appellant.

Sara Toll East and Lawrence Kunin for New York State Division of Human Rights, respondent.

Jules L. Smith for Hartwell P. Morse, respondent.

Judges SIMONS, TITONE and BELLACOSA concur with Judge ALEXANDER; Judge KAYE dissents and votes to affirm in a separate opinion in which Chief Judge WACHTLER concurs; Judge HANCOCK, JR., taking no part.

ALEXANDER, J.

The question presented on this appeal is whether the State Division of Human Rights may properly dismiss "for administrative convenience" a complaint which is time barred by Executive Law § 297 (5). We conclude that such a dismissal is not authorized because it would contravene the statutory scheme requiring a complainant to elect a remedy in either an administrative or a judicial forum (

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