Nancy Wright (Partner-New York, NY) and Michael Colgan (Associate-New York, NY) secured partial pre-answer dismissal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of Wilson Elser’s client, a prominent New York City independent school. The lawsuit, brought by our client’s former employee, asserted eleven claims alleging discrimination, a hostile work environment, and retaliation under Title VII and New York state and city anti-discrimination laws. The allegations were unusual in that they involved student-on-faculty conduct, rather than the more typical discrimination claims focused on faculty/employer-on-faculty behavior. Despite Nancy and Michael notifying the plaintiff of his pleading deficiencies and that the applicable statute of limitations barred most of the claims, the plaintiff proceeded in court. Wilson Elser filed a compelling motion to dismiss, expanding on arguments demonstrating that many of the claims were time-barred and/or legally deficient. The Southern District Court agreed, granting pre-answer dismissal in the client’s favor on ten of plaintiff’s eleven claims and leaving only a single city law claim to proceed.