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Woman Sues CUNY For Discrimination on
Political Opinion, Opposes Coercion to
Sign
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July 6 – Faigy Rachel Weiss
sued CUNY for being rejected
for the Silberman School of
Social Work for, she says,
being a white Hasidic Jewish
female and because of her
"imputed political
opinion."
On June 13,
2022 U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Valerie
Figueredo held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Weiss
marveled at what she called
the arrogance of the publicly
paid defendant's lawyers.
She said
she is "shocked at the
corruption." The defense
countered that mediation would
be pointless.
Judge Figueredo
however signed a referral to
mediation by June 23, and
ordered the plaintiff to
comply with a motion to
compel.
That after
mediation was deferred pending
a pro bono lawyer, Ms. Weiss
wrote to Judge Figueredo that
"opposing counsel, who is a
tax paid government employee
working on behalf of an
elected official, has ordered
me to sign a different
statement that what I wrote...
I ask that opposing counsel
not be allowed to coerce me to
sign anything other than the
statement I already signed."
The case is Weiss
v. City University of New York
et al., 17-cv-3557 (Broderick
/ Figueredo)
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