Case Name: In the Matter of Makebra Matthews, Appellant, v. City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-03-07
Citations: 270 A.D.2d 45
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Makebra Matthews, Appellant, v City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 270
Pages: 45–45

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Makebra Matthews, Appellant, v City of New York, Respondent.
[704 NYS2d 49]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Beatrice Shainswit, J.), entered October 27, 1998, which denied petitioner's application to annul respondent's determination terminating her employment as a provisional caseworker with the Administration for Children's Services, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Petitioner's submissions, which adduced no facts tending to show either that her job performance was satisfactory or that respondent was enforcing a dress code that allowed men, but not women, to wear sexually provocative or otherwise inappropriate clothes, fail to make out a prima facie case of discrimination based on sex (see, McDonnell Douglas Corp. v Green, 411 US 792, 802). We note that respondent adduced abundant evidence showing reasons for being dissatisfied with petitioner entirely apart from her manner of dress. Absent a prima facie showing of discrimination, the mixed-motive analysis of Price Waterhouse v Hopkins (490 US 228) is inapplicable. Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Wallach, Andrias and Friedman, JJ.