Comments of Landlord's Daughter Don't Amount to Discrimination

(Decision submitted by James R. Marino of the Manhattan law firm of Kucker & Bruh, LLP, attorneys for the landlord.) Tenant complained to the NYC Division of Human Rights that landlord and his daughter were discriminating against him. Tenant claimed landlord's daughter made insulting comments about tenant's being gay and told him she hoped he died of AIDS. Tenant also said he told the building managing agent about this, but nothing was done. After an investigation, the Division of Human Rights dismissed tenant's complaint. Landlord's daughter was neither an employee nor an agent of landlord. There was proof that landlord's daughter had made only two comments to tenant during the period in question. Both of these had been made during heated arguments and one was in front of police officer. Landlord claimed tenant often started these arguments. The incidents were neither severe nor ongoing. And there was no proof of tenant's complaints in any letters he submitted to the building's managing agent.

McClenahan v. Stonehenge Partners LP: NYC DHR Complaint No. M-H-DP-99-1007260 (4/1/03) [2-pg. doc.]