Millennium Hotels Beats Worker’s Age, Disability Bias Claims

Millennium Hotels defeated claims that it discriminated against a now-deceased hotel supervisor who took medical leave at age 70. The supervisor’s estate didn’t show that Millennium’s reasons for the termination—the company’s acquisition by Hilton Management Co. and its realization that his position was unnecessary—were pretextual, a Manhattan federal judge ruled.

The evidence supporting Roberto Almanzar’s estate is “either exculpatory to Defendant or irrelevant,” Judge Valerie Caproni of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held Monday. Almanzar’s evidence shows only that his position hadn’t yet been eliminated in early 2017, which is consistent with Millennium’s contention ...