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Woman Sued CUNY For Discrimination on
Political Opinion Now Faces Sanctions
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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July 26 – 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."
On July 26, Judge
Figueredo ordered "Plaintiff
is directed to submit a
notarized verification of her
responses to Document Requests
2 and 4 by no later than
Monday, August 8, 2022. As
stated at the conference:
FAILURE TO SUBMIT THIS
VERIFICATION BY THE DEADLINE
PROVIDED MAY RESULT IN
SANCTIONS, INCLUDING PLAINTIFF
BEING PRECLUDED FROM RELYING
ON THIS INFORMATION AT TRIAL.
Finally, on June 14, 2022,
this case was referred to the
Court's Mediation Program (see
ECF No. 186). On June 22,
2022, this Court ordered the
Clerk of Court to locate pro
bono counsel to represent
Plaintiff in the mediation
(see ECF No. 189). However,
given that the Mediation
Office may be unable to locate
pro bono counsel for
Plaintiff, the parties are
directed to move forward with
scheduling a mediation. The
Clerk of Court is directed to
close the motion at ECF No.
191. SO ORDERED.. (Signed by
Magistrate Judge Valerie
Figueredo on 7/26/2022)."
The case is Weiss
v. City University of New York
et al., 17-cv-3557 (Broderick
/ Figueredo)
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