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Isolated Race-Related Remarks Do Not Constitute Hostile Work Environment

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MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDERI. Introduction Plaintiff Shawntell Mills-Sanchez brings this action against the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), John Thompson, Pamela Potter-Reger, Deborah McGuire, Eugene Monaco (collectively “RF SUNY employees”), the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc. (RFMH), Joanne Trinkle, Welfare Research, Inc. (WRI), Lee Lounsbury, and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (NYSOCFS). She alleges racial discrimination, retaliation, hostile work environment, conspiracy, and a violation of her rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (See generally Am. Compl., Dkt. No. 13.) Pending is a motion to dismiss filed by RFMH and Trinkle, (Dkt. No. 18), as well as a motion to dismiss filed by RF SUNY and RF SUNY employees, (Dkt. No. 22). For the following reasons, both motions are granted.II. BackgroundA. Facts¹Plaintiff, a black female, began working for RF SUNY² in or around 2005. (Am. Compl.

1, 89.) She complains of unfair treatment from 2007 until her employment ended in 2015, which allegedly continued in the form of “blacklisting.” (See generally id.)In 2007, plaintiff’s supervisor, Diane DiGiorgio, who is white, “was granted an accommodation so she could work from home two days a week.” (Id.

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