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DaCOSTA v. NEW YORK CITY DEPT. OF BLDGS.

Index No. 153892/20. Appeal No. 15552. Case No. 2021-00691.

203 A.D.3d 571 (2022)

165 N.Y.S.3d 524

2022 NY Slip Op 01963

Dennis DaCosta, Appellant, v. New York City Department of Buildings et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided March 22, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pollock Cohen LLP, New York (Max E. Rodriguez of counsel), for appellant.

Georgia M. Pestana, Corporation Counsel, New York (Jamison Davies of counsel), for respondent.

Concur—Renwick, J.P., Manzanet-Daniels, Singh, Kennedy, Scarpulla, JJ.

Plaintiff was employed by the Department of Buildings (DOB) for five months before he resigned. He alleges that he was later provisionally offered a job with New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, but an unnamed DOB employee scuttled his offer by providing a poor reference, allegedly in retaliation for his reporting a conflict of interest to the City's Department of Investigation. Plaintiff brought this suit alleging a panoply of claims, including one for unlawful...

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