There is no basis to disturb the verdict, which found no liability on the part of defendant restaurant owner under the Dram Shop Act (General Obligations Law § 11-101), and implicitly rejected plaintiff's testimony. The peremptory challenges exercised against women by the defense were, if not gender neutral on their face, shown to be not pretextual, so that the defense met its burden of disproving any discriminatory motivation behind the challenges. While the relations...
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