United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's claims of racial discrimination, with prejudice, on the ground that 42 U.S.C. section 1981 does not prohibit discriminatory conduct occurring while a plaintiff is outside the jurisdiction of the U.S., is vacated to the extent it included plaintiff's claims based on allegedly discriminatory actions his employer took against him while he was in the U.S.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/15/2006
• Published 08/15/2006

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before WINTER, CABRANES and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anne C. Vladeck (Rebecca J. Osborne, on the brief), Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintif-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• P. Kevin Connelly, Connelly Sheehan Harris, Chicago, IL (Kristine Aubin, Connelly Sheehan Harris, Chicago, IL and Marc E. Bernstein, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.