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FORREST v. JEWISH GUILD

3 N.Y.3d 295 (2004)

819 N.E.2d 998

786 N.Y.S.2d 382

PAULA FORREST, Appellant, v. JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 26, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, New York City (William J. Sipser and Jack Tuckner of counsel), for appellant.

Torys LLP, New York City (Lauren Reiter Brody and Frances Kulka Browne of counsel), for respondents.

Judges CIPARICK, ROSENVLATT, GRAFFO, READ and R.S. SMITH concur with Chief Judge KAYE; Judge G.B. SMITH concurs in result in a separate opinion.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Chief Judge KAYE.

Racial discrimination has no place in society. Antidiscrimination laws must therefore be strictly enforced to root out this scourge whenever it occurs. But it is simply not the law that every dispute that arises between people of different races constitutes employment discrimination, or that every wrongful act perpetrated in the course of such a dispute is committed because...

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