ALBANY – A 62-year-old executive in Atlanta cannot sue his former employer under New York City or New York state age discrimination laws because his job and the decision to terminate him were only tangentially connected to New York, the state Court of Appeals decided yesterday.

Also, in the last written decisions of its 2009-10 term, the Court ruled that the state’srefusal to sanction an experimental treatment for a prison inmate with hepatitis C did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

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