NY Medical Practice Defeats Female Physician’s Job Bias Appeal

A pain management specialist lacked evidence she was ousted from a New York orthopedic group because she’s a woman or based on her EEOC activity, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.

But the decision clarified for litigants in New York and neighboring states the federal process under which district judges frequently refer case dispositive motions to magistrate judges for recommended rulings and rejected a lower court’s handling on that review.

District judges are required to fully examine recommendations by magistrates on how to dispose of a case as long as a party makes a specific objection to the magistrate’s recommendation, the ...