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affirming the dismissal of a "plaintiff employee's claim alleging prima facie tort proper where it was based upon the same allegations of harassment and discrimination" as other asserted claims
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No. 2369 113479/05.
December 13, 2007.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward H. Lehner, J.), entered June 5, 2006, which, to the extent appealed from, granted defendant's motion to dismiss the seventh cause of action alleging prima facie tort, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Law Office of Sandra D. Parker, New York (Sandra D. Parker of counsel), for appellant.
Stacey L. Blecher, New York, for respondent.
Before: Friedman, J.P., Marlow, Gonzalez and Catterson, JJ.
Dismissal of plaintiff employee's claim alleging prima facie tort was proper where it was based upon the same allegations of harassment and discrimination as his claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress, which the court also dismissed ( see Belsky v Lowenthal, 62 AD2d 319, affd 47 NY2d 820). Plaintiff also failed to sufficiently plead that the challenged conduct of his employer and certain of its employees was motivated by "disinterested malevolence" ( see Burns Jackson Miller Summit Spitzer v Lindner, 59 NY2d 314, 333, quoting American Bank Trust Co. v Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 256 US 350, 358).