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In most places, a plaintiff who claims that their former employer sexually harassed them must establish that the conduct to which they were subjected was severe or pervasive enough to alter the conditions of employment and create a hostile or abusive work environment.

In New York, however, not so much.

In this recent federal court decision, the defendants sought to dismiss the plaintiff’s sexual harassment claims because, according to the defendants, they amounted to “nothing more than mere sporadic, insensitive comments.” To support their argument, the defendant cited a bunch of earlier decisions arising under Title VII of the Civil

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