Case Name: Mark SYRKIN, Plaintiff Appellant, v. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Robert L. King, in his official capacity as Chancellor of the State University of New York, and/or his successor(s), and John W. Craine, Jr., in his official capacity as President or Interim President of the State University of New York Maritime College, and/or his successor(s), Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-03-19
Citations: 370 F. App'x 150
Docket Number: No. 09-3130-cv
Parties: Mark SYRKIN, Plaintiff Appellant, v. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Robert L. King, in his official capacity as Chancellor of the State University of New York, and/or his successor(s), and John W. Craine, Jr., in his official capacity as President or Interim President of the State University of New York Maritime College, and/or his successor(s), Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge, GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge, JANE A. RESTANI , Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 370
Pages: 150–151

Head Matter:
Mark SYRKIN, Plaintiff Appellant, v. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Robert L. King, in his official capacity as Chancellor of the State University of New York, and/or his successor(s), and John W. Craine, Jr., in his official capacity as President or Interim President of the State University of New York Maritime College, and/or his successor(s), Defendants-Appellees.
No. 09-3130-cv.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
March 19, 2010.
James M. Maloney, Law Office of James M. Maloney, Port Washington, NY, for Appellant.
Karen Schoen (Barbara D. Underwood, Benjamin N. Gutman, Ann P. Zybert on the brief) on behalf of Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY, for Appellees.
PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge, GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge, JANE A. RESTANI , Judge.
The Honorable Jane A. Restani, Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, sitling by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
This Court reviews the district court's grant of summary judgment de novo. See Young v. County of Fulton, 160 F.3d 899, 902 (2d Cir.1998). In doing so, this Court is required to construe the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party and to draw all reasonable inferences in its favor. See Anderson v. Liber ty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 255, 106 S.Ct. 2505, 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986).
We affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants Robert King and John Craine for substantially the same reasons stated by the district court in its September 8, 2008, 2008 WL 4179690, opinion. The district court had previously granted the State University of New York's ("SUNY") motion for summary judgment on the ground that plaintiff Mark Syrkin's complaint was not timely. As the Title VII claim against SUNY is based on the same facts and decided under the same standard as the Section 1983 claims against King and Craine, we need not decide the timeliness issues; instead we affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment for SUNY on the alternative merits grounds as stated in the September 8, 2008 opinion. See Feingold v. New York, 366 F.3d 138, 159 (2d Cir. 2004) ("The elements of one are generally the same as the elements of the other and the two must stand or fall together."); Abdu-Brisson v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., 239 F.3d 456, 466 (2d Cir.2001) ("[W]e may affirm a grant of summary judgment for different reasons than those relied upon by the district court.").
Finding no merit in Syrkin's remaining arguments, we hereby AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.