OFORI-TENKORANG v. AMERICAN INTERN. GROUP, INC.

Docket No. 05-5272-cv.

460 F.3d 296 (2006)

John OFORI-TENKORANG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC., AIG Financial Products Corp., AIG International, Inc. and AIG Trading Corp., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne C. Vladeck (Rebecca J. Osborne, on the brief), Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintif-Appellant.

P. Kevin Connelly, Connelly Sheehan Harris, Chicago, IL (Kristine Aubin, Connelly Sheehan Harris, Chicago, IL and Marc E. Bernstein, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WINTER, CABRANES and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.


JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.

The issue presented is whether the Civil Rights Act of 1871, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ("Section 1981"),1 may be applied to prohibit an employer's allegedly discriminatory conduct arising from the overseas assignment of plaintiff, a non-citizen. We review here the dismissal by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ...

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