YU PRIDE ALLIANCE v. YESHIVA UNIV.

154010/21. Appeal Nos. 16879, M-04092, M-04103, M-04417, M-14188. Case No. 2022-02726.

211 A.D.3d 562 (2022)

180 N.Y.S.3d 141

2022 NY Slip Op 07175

YU Pride Alliance et al., Respondents, v. Yeshiva University et al., Appellants, et al., Defendant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided December 15, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaufman, Borgeest & Ryan, LLP, New York ( David Bloom of counsel), and The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, DC ( Eric S. Baxter of the bar of the District of Columbia, admitted pro hac vice of counsel), for appellants.

Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel, LLP, New York ( Katherine Rosenfeld of counsel), for respondents.

New York City Bar Association, New York ( Lauren G. Axelrod , Danielle (Danny) King and Karen Levit of counsel), for New York City Bar Association, amicus curiae.

Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, New York ( Norman N. Kinel of counsel) and David R. Kuney , Potomac, MD for Eshel, Keshet, National Council of Jewish Women, Women Lawyers on Guard Inc., and A Group of Rabbis and Law School Professors, amici curiae.

Jenner & Block LLP, New York ( Jeremy M. Creelan , Rémi J.D. Jaffré and Owen W. Keiter of counsel), and Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC ( Michelle S. Kallen of counsel), for Dr. Joshua R. Wolff, Dr. H.L. Himes and Dr. Theresa Stueland Kay, amici curiae.

Gabriella Larios and Robert Hodgson , New York New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, amicus curiae.

Rose A. Saxe , New York and Daniel Mach , Washington, D.C., for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, amicus curiae.

Richard B. Katskee , Bradley Girard and Gabriella Hybel , Washington, DC, for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, amicus curiae.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York ( Olivia P. Greene and Alan E. Schoenfeld of counsel), for First Amendment Scholars: Professors Nelson Tebbe, Katherine Franke, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Linda C. McClain, Lawrence G. Sager, Richard C. Schragger, Micah Schwartzman, Elizabeth W. Sepper and Nomi Stolzenberg, amici curiae.

Schaerr | Jaffe LLP, New York ( Erik S. Jaffe of counsel and Gene Schaerr of the bar of the District of Columbia and Joshua Prince of the bar of the District of Columbia), for Christian Colleges & Universities, The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, The Cardinal Newman Society and 15 Individual Religious Schools, amici curiae.

Dennis Rapps , New York, for National Orthodox Jewish Organizations, amici curiae.

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholler LLP, New York ( Rosalyn H. Richter , Angela R. Vicari , Rebecca D. Maller-Stein and Mindy A. Gorin of counsel), for Cardozo OUTLaw, Ferkauf LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group, Cardozo OUTLaw Alumni Committee, Cardozo Student Bar Association, Fordham OUTLaws, Fordham Law Student Bar Association, and OUTLaws+ Allies at St. John's School of Law, amici curiae.

Nelson Madden Black LLP, New York ( Barry Black of counsel), for Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and Coalition for Jewish Values, amici curiae.

Dhillon Law Group, Inc., New York ( Ronald D. Coleman of counsel), for Agudath Israel of America, amicus curiae.

The Law Office of Judah Z. Cohen PLLC, Woodmere ( Judah Z. Cohen of counsel), for Professor Douglas Laycock and Archdiocese of New York, amici curiae.

Archdiocese of New York, New York ( Roderick Cassidy of counsel), and Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC, Washington, DC ( Michael Buschbacher of counsel), for Archdiocese of New York, amicus curiae.

First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX ( Keisha T. Russell of counsel), for Professor Richard A. Epstein, amicus curiae.

Concur—Webber, J.P., González, Mendez, Pitt-Burke, JJ.


Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lynn R. Kotler, J.), entered June 24, 2022, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs' New York City Human Rights Law (City HRL) claims asserting gender, sexual orientation, and association discrimination, granted plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment, and issued a permanent injunction requiring defendant university (Yeshiva) to recognize...

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