MARKO v. KORF (2018)

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Nancy M. Bannon, J.), entered on or about October 18, 2017, which granted defendants' motion to vacate plaintiff's jury demand, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

All of plaintiff's statutory causes of action arose from the same transaction, namely, her employment with defendant Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York. Plaintiff's inclusion of extensive demands for injunctive relief—for reinstatement and orders restraining defendants from any further discrimination—effected a waiver of her right to a jury trial (see Zimmer–Masiello, Inc. v. Zimmer, Inc., 164 A.D.2d 845, 846, 559 N.Y.S.2d 888 [1st Dept. 1990];  Kaplan v. Long Is. Univ., 116 A.D.2d 508, 497 N.Y.S.2d 378 [1st Dept. 1986] ).

Plaintiff's reliance on the guarantee to a right to trial by jury under the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is misplaced.  The contours of the federal guarantee differ from the protections afforded the right to a jury trial in civil cases in this State (see Lytle v. Household Mfg., Inc., 494 U.S. 545, 550, 110 S.Ct. 1331, 108 L.Ed.2d 504 [1990] ), and the Seventh Amendment is not applicable to cases tried in state courts (see McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 765 n. 13, 130 S.Ct. 3020, 177 L.Ed.2d 894 [2010];  Matter of Department of Hous. Preserv. & Dev. of City of N.Y. v. Deka Realty Corp., 208 A.D.2d 37, 51 n. 6, 620 N.Y.S.2d 837 [2d Dept. 1995] ).