Case Name: Beverly A. Kelly, Appellant, v. Poughkeepsie Area Chamber of Commerce et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-10-04
Citations: 265 A.D.2d 307
Docket Number: 
Parties: Beverly A. Kelly, Appellant, v Poughkeepsie Area Chamber of Commerce et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 265
Pages: 307–308

Head Matter:
Beverly A. Kelly, Appellant, v Poughkeepsie Area Chamber of Commerce et al., Respondents.
[696 NYS2d 215]

Opinion:
—In an action pursuant to Executive Law § 296 to recover damages for age and disability discrimination in employment, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Bellantoni, J.), entered August 19, 1998, which granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The defendants established their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law and the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact sufficient to defeat the defendants' motion (see, CPLR 3212 [b]). The plaintiff, an at-will employee, was unable to perform her duties at the time of the adverse employment decision. Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly dismissed her claim of disability discrimination (see, Executive Law § 296 [3-a] [g]; Thomas v Austrian Airlines, 216 AD2d 554, 555; Harbas v Gilmore, 193 AD2d 553; McAuliffe v Taft Furniture Warehouse & Showroom, 116 AD2d 774). In addition, the plaintiff failed to demonstrate a prima facie case of age discrimination as she failed to show that she was replaced by a person younger than herself, produce direct evidence of discriminatory intent, or produce statistical evidence of discriminatory conduct (see, Bockino v Metropolitan Transp. Auth., 224 AD2d 471, 472). Altman, J. P., Krausman, H. Miller and Schmidt, JJ., concur.