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    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

    FOR

    THE

    SECOND

    CIRCUIT

    Thurgood Marsha ll U.S.

    Courthouse

    40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007

    Telephone:

    212-857-8500

    MOTION INFORMATION STATEMENT

    Docket Number(s): _1_5_ _1_3_2_8

    Motion for: Reconsideration

    Set forth below precise, complete statement of relief sought:

    Relief from dismissal of torts and 42 U.S.C. sec 1981,

    and Family Medical Leave Act prior to due process

    in Court of Appeals

    Leena Varughese, M.D.

    l.LJPlaintiff Defendant

    IZJAppellant/Petitioner Appellee/Respondent

    MOVING ATTORNEY: pending

    Varughese v. Mount Sinai Medical Center et al

    OPPOSING PARTY: Mount Sinai Medical Center

    et

    al

    OPPOSING ATTORNEY:

    Rory McEvoy

    [name of attorney, with

    firm,

    address, phone number and e-mail]

    Blank Rome LLP

    405 Lexington Avenue

    ew

    York,

    Y

    10174-0208

    court-Judge/Agency appealed from: Southern District of

    ew

    York - Judge McMahon

    Please check appropr iate boxes:

    Has counsel (required by Local Rule 27 1 ):

    lJ Yesl JNo (explain):

    position on motion:

    LJ UnopposedD:>pposed [Zpon t Know

    Does opposing counsel intend to file a response:

    D YesGo

    l}oon

    t Know

    FOR EMERGENCY MOTIONS, MOTIONS FOR STAYS AND

    INJUNCTIONS PENDING APPEAL:

    Has request for relief been made below?

    Has this reli

    ef

    been previously sought in this Court?

    D Yes IZINo

    D Yes

    IZINo

    Requested return date and explanation ofemergency:

    Is oral argument on motion requested? Ye s llJ No (requests for oral argument will not necessarily be granted)

    D Yes IZJNo

    f

    yes, enter date: _

    ey:

    11/5/2015

    Form T 1080 rev. 12-13)

    Service by: IZJcMJECF D Other [Attach proofof service]

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    Memorandum of Law on Motion

    for

    Reconsideration

    The court's have irrefutable importance to a popular government, that justice has been

    done in that individuals being what he is cannot safely be trusted with complete immunity

    from outward responsibility in depriving others

    of

    their rights. so open review is advocated by

    U.S. Supreme Court, recognizing that the right to be heard before being condemned to suffer

    grievous loss of any kind, even though it may not involve the stigma and hardships of a criminal

    conviction, is a principle basic to our society and as appearances in the dark are apt to look

    different in the light of day... The validity and moral authority

    of

    a conclusion largely depend on

    the mode by which it was reached. Secrecy is not congenial to truth-seeking and self-

    righteousness gives too slender an assurance of rightness. quoting

    Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee

    Committee v McGrath, 341US.123 at 171, 172 1951). The standard for analyzing the motion

    for summary judgment have been discussed previously in my prior memorandum

    of

    law in case

    docket, 15-1328 at 24, so I will not rehash it again. I will limit the arguments in this

    memorandum

    of

    law to the fact that dismissal

    of

    stated meritorious claims with significant

    remedies, prior to appropriate procedures before the court of appeals, is erroneous as a matter of

    established law and the specific facts

    of

    the case as submitted by me in the Rule 56. l statements.

    The court

    of

    appeals is to review the case de novo on a ruling against the non-moving party

    based on the Rule 56, motion for summary judgment. The claims that were dismissed erroneous

    by the court of appeals were numbers 13-22 as listed on page 2, paragraph 1 of the Second

    Amended Complaint and Jury Demand in Varughese

    v

    Mount Sinai Medical Center et al,

    12cv8812, document# 66.

    I. Claims should not be dismissed

    The U.S. Supreme Court in Neitzke v Williams, 490 US 319 1989) decided that In Forma

    Pauperis (IFP) status pleadings by indigent prisoners dismissed using Rule 12(b)(6), for failure to

    state a claim on which a remedy can be obtained, was erroneous. In my reading, indigent

    prisoners are treated differently while they are incarcerated for a crime and various Judges have

    argued that they have less rights than individual citizens at large. Since the IFP status is often

    used by the indigent prisoner populations

    1

    , the U.S. Supreme Court informed the lower courts

    that they are to use 28 U.S. Code 1915 (e), Proceedings in Forma Pauperis

    2

    ,

    in determining

    dismissal of cases on the basis that section 1915(d) is designed largely to discourage the filing

    of, and waste

    of

    judicial and private resources upon, baseless lawsuits that paying litigants

    generally do not initiate and to this end, the statute accords judges not only the authority to

    dismiss a claim based on an indisputably meritless legal theory, but also the unusual power to

    1

    Federal Courts. Magistrate Judges. and the Pro Se Plaintiff.16 NOTRE

    DAME

    J.L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 475, 479 (2002) (citing

    David Rauma

    &

    Charles Sutelan,

    Analysis

    of

    Pro

    Se

    Case Filings in

    en

    U.S. District Courts Yields

    ew

    Information

    9

    FJC

    DIRECTIONS 6, 6 (1996) (reporting that 21 % of all case filings in ten districts in the period of 1991- 1994 involved pro se litigants,

    and that prisoner petitions constituted 63 of these filings)).

    2

    28 U.S.

    Code

    1915 (e) (2) Notwithstanding any filing fee, or any portion thereof, that may have been paid, the court

    shall dismiss the case at any time if the court determines that. .. (B) the action

    or

    appeal- (i) is frivolous

    or

    malicious;

    (ii) fails to state a claim on which relief may be granted;

    or

    (iii) seeks monetary relief against a defendant who

    is

    immune from such relief.

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    on plaintiffs either

    at

    the swnmary judgment stage or in the trial itself. quoting Crawford-El

    v

    Britton, 523 US 574, 594 (1998). Nietzke and Denton also deal squarely with indigent prisoner

    population suing a government official, not indigent private parties in suits between private

    parties, with large disparity

    of

    resources, such as between me and a very profitable multi-billion

    dollar organization, Mount Sinai Medical Center, with litigation insurance and multiple lawyers,

    that no one individual Plaintiff, cannot reasonably compete with monetarily but I can succeed in

    this case based on the facts of the case and the basis in law that clearly show violations

    of

    Civil

    Rights, federal statues, and tortious activity by Defendants.

    II. 28 USC 1295

    guarantees the

    right

    of

    appeal from final decisions

    made

    by the trial

    court, on

    what

    was based on

    the

    most egregious

    errors

    possible by

    Judge

    McMahon.

    Judge McMahon stated that I did not comply with local court rules by failed to file a

    Rule 56.1 statement (12cv8812, document 220, p.4), which she later stated is that the Rule 56.1

    statement

    of

    facts that did not comply with Fed. R. Civil P. 56(e) (id.

    at

    p.7), neither

    of

    which

    were true (12cv8812, document 204). Judge McMahon cherry picked facts and she actually

    fabricated facts, after her declaration of her open hostility and her irreparable prejudice towards

    me, to be discussed below, the Plaintiff, the non-moving party in a motion for swnmary

    judgment. f he goal

    of

    due process

    of

    law is to preserve the appearance and reality

    of

    fairness,

    generating the feeling, important to popular government, of justice being done , I am not

    getting that feeling from the actions of Judge McMahon and Magistrate Francis, and based on

    my reading

    on

    vast amount

    of

    related literature with regards to employment discrimination and

    torts complaints in this setting, there is a vast injustice taking place currently in these courts to

    individual Plaintiffs. quoting Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v McGrath, 34 US. 123,

    172 1951).

    Judge McMahon's searching review of the several thousand pages

    of

    transcripts and

    other documents that she (Varughese) submitted in opposition to swnmary judgment was

    necessitated because she made improper credibility assessments to ignore the plainly stated

    disputes of facts (12cv8812, document 220, p.4). In the course

    of

    her defending this

    unwarranted approach

    of

    searching review , despite the fact the Defendants submitted a rebuttal

    to my Rule 56.1 statement

    of

    facts, Judge McMahon falsely accused me

    of

    insinuat(ing) that the

    suicide

    of

    a colleague's relative was actually a murder for which yet another colleague is

    somehow responsible . I did not accuse any of my colleagues of killing their relative or their

    friend's relative, but Judge McMahon states this occurred. Judge McMahon was also

    inexplicably upset that I have informed her

    of

    my concerns with regards to Defendants and their

    counsel, Rory McEvoy's activities in my case

    of

    which I am concerned, enough to report the

    matter to her, which was my only option. I do not have access to the large array of investigative

    resources and surveillance capabilities that law firms and lawyers have at their disposal, and

    which they are trained to utilize and they utilize in their litigations, therefore, I am in a situation

    where my concerns have to be aired through the court without much more information on

    suspect professional misconduct.

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    Judge McMahon created a false narrative against me with snippets of depositions and

    fabricated facts, to distract from the relevant disputes

    of

    facts and the legal merits

    of my

    case,

    by

    attacking my character, my credibility, and my diligent work on my case that clearly outline

    disputes of fact and rebuttals that a reasonable jury could determine as discrimination, retaliation,

    and torts. Judge McMahon' s partiality to white Defendants is directed

    at

    depriving

    me

    of

    my

    civil rights, so they can keep their jobs, federal funds, and escape unscathed to attack more

    minorities, irrespective of their unlawful conduct, guilt, or competence, with predetermined

    losers such as myself, who was discriminated and retaliated against and I worked under this glass

    ceiling of impermissible discrimination and unlawful retaliation.

    Judge McMahon even veers into the Federal Rules of Evidence to support her

    contentions that I engaged in hearsay and other evidence rendered inadmissible by various

    Federal Rules of Evidence on a civil litigation, even though the motion for summary judgment is

    not the appropriate place to contend on this matter as the same evidence can be utilized in

    different

    ways

    in a trial setting (id.

    at

    p.3, 7). Judge McMahon, however, utilizes even more

    inadmissible evidence to make a determination for the Defendants. The more important issue

    with motion for summary judgments as a Plaintiff, in general, is that these have become so

    intensive that the Plaintiff must defend the motion for summary judgment with extensive

    submissions

    of

    evidence, due to the fact that appellate review against non-moving party require

    that the Plaintiff have already submitted the evidence, with very few exceptions. I submitted a

    rebuttal to Defendants Rule 56.1 statements that was a tediously and meticulously referenced

    collection of relevant facts according

    to

    the required standards

    of

    the court, rather than what I

    considered would be the preferred method of presenting facts according in a timeline fashion, for

    the court to determine the legal conclusion, which actually would have clarified the egregious

    unlawful conduct

    of

    the Defendants even more clearly.

    The motion for summary judgment decided

    by

    Judge McMahon is fanciful, delusional,

    frivolous, and with fabricated facts, to cover up the obviously guilty conduct

    of

    the Defendants,

    therefore it violates the constitutional equitable adjudication prescribed by life, liberty, or

    property will not be taken

    on

    the basis of erroneous or distorted conception of the facts and the

    law. Marshall v Jerrica, Inc., 446 US. 238, 242 1980). I am unimpressed by the flouting of

    the law by the judges, the bullying, the defamatory attacks on my character, the searching

    review evidence, the dispute

    of

    facts used to rebut Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment

    are used to marginalize, ostracize, and disenfranchise

    me

    , in order to keep establishment

    institutionalized racism sexism and retaliatory conduct towards minorities

    an

    ongoing money

    maker for the courts and lawyers, while bankrupting seriously aggrieved and suffering Plaintiffs.

    The 2nd circuit, Court of Appeals is also unable to determine the arguable basis in

    law

    or in

    fact without proceeding with a full hearing

    on

    appeals process afforded to litigants appealing

    from a summary judgment decision with the full de novo review of

    the claims that have basis

    in

    fact and law after the egregious errors

    made

    in this case.

    III. The assignment

    of pro

    bono counsel to my case do not

    warrant

    the dismissal

    of

    any

    claims.

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    The fact that the court assigned a pro bono counsel to my case should not be followed by

    the dismissal of my claims that are based in fact and law At the time of the decision on motion

    for summary judgment, I did not apply for in forma pauperis. I applied to the court for pro bono

    counsel and IFP status, given the poverty and the erroneous ruling against me by Judge

    McMahon. The filing of IFP status in Appellate is not an invitation by this court to dismiss my

    claims prior to all the steps in due process afforded in the Second District Court

    of

    Appeals.

    IV The claims

    re

    supported by the facts of the case,

    nd

    have sound basis in law nd fact.

    Insufficiency of discovery was appealed

    during

    fact finding with regards to case.

    The Second District Court ofAppeals considering questions of law with de novo review

    with the intention to seriously consider the matters before it without impermissible

    discriminatory intent of this minority Plaintiff and in good faith, t should allow the following

    tort claims and Family Medical Leave Act Claim to remain for review, also:

    1

    The facts of the case, as submitted in my Rule

    56 1

    statement of facts support the cause of

    action of Defamation and/or Defamation per se, that lead to a substantial question of law that

    should be answered and adjudicated. f his court is seriously considering my appeal on it's

    merits, then it would not dismiss this tort. Defamation per se is clearly illustrated by the

    summative evaluation filled out by the Defendant organization in coordination with

    multiple individuals as per deposition testimony of Adolfo Firpo-Betancourt, Scott Barnett,

    Paul Johnson, and the Defendant Institution's lawyers that is false and it has effectively

    rendered it impossible for me to continue with my career in pathology, such as obtaining my

    American Board

    of

    Pathology certification in Anatomic Pathology or complete the remainder

    of my residency at another Institution. Adolfo Firpo-Betancourt, who signed this document,

    was not even the Program Director or even practicing Pathology at the time my employment

    was terminated, and he was only hired on a whim as per testimony from Carlos Cordon-

    Cardo. In addition, I also did not work on a single patient case with Firpo-Betancourt and

    the individuals he stated who wrote up summative evaluation for him to sign, as such they

    cannot reasonably derive any conclusion other than that which is based in their ongoing

    malice directed at me. The New York State Department of Health investigated my case

    several times, and they have sent me multiple letters stating that they have not found any

    wrongdoing on my part. I have been informed by them to pursue my career but without the

    appropriate intervention with regards to this issue which is too damaging to my career. In

    evaluating the standard for Defamation per se as established by the US Supreme court that

    stated that defamation law developed not only as a means of allowing an individual to

    vindicate his good name, but also for the purpose of obtaining redress for harm caused by

    such statements Milkovich

    v

    Lorain Journal Co. 497 U.S. 1 at 12 (1990). The Supreme

    Court also stated that their former decisions on defamation tort was not intended to create a

    wholesale defamation exemption for anything that might be labeled 'opinion'. Milkovich

    v

    Lorain Journal Co. 497 U.S. 1 at 19 (1990). The US Supreme Court stated that the

    question whether the evidence in the record in a defamation case is sufficient to support a

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    finding

    o

    actual malice is a question

    o

    law. quoting Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v

    Connaughton,

    491 US 657

    685 1989).

    The supreme court further states that that there is

    also another side to the equation; we have regularly acknowledged the 'important social

    values which underlie the law

    o

    defamation,' and recognized that ' [s]ociety has a pervasive

    and strong interest in preventing and redressing attacks upon reputation. '

    Milkovich

    v

    Lorain Journal Co. 497 US. 1 at 22 1990) with internal quotations from Rosenblatt v

    Baer

    383 U

    S. 75

    86 1966). The 2nd Circuit stated that it has long been our standard in

    defamation actions to read published articles in context to test their effect on the average

    reader, not

    to

    isolate particular phrases but to consider the publication as a whole.

    lmmuno

    Ag.

    v

    Moor-Jankowski, 77

    NY2d

    235, at 250 1991). The second circuit also held that

    compound charges

    o

    error in a publication, when considered from the viewpoint

    o

    the

    average reader, can have the effect

    o

    accusing the plaintiff

    o

    general incompetence or

    dishonesty in his profession so defendants who make compound charges o error are not

    entitled to the assumption that their charges did not injure reputation

    Celle

    v

    Filipino

    Reporter Enterprises Inc.,

    209F3d163

    at 181 2d

    Cir.

    2000).

    I think that given the issue

    o

    redress and the facts

    o

    the case, Defamation per se is a tort that should definitely be

    reviewed in light

    o

    the questions o law, also see below at

    #

    3.

    2.

    The facts

    o

    the case, as submitted in my Rule

    56.1

    statement with evidence support the

    cause

    o

    action

    o

    breach

    o

    contract and the violation

    o

    42 U.S.C. 1981

    o

    the Civil Rights

    Act, that lead to a substantial question

    o

    law that should be answered and adjudicated. I was

    a contracted employee who was targeted for the repeat discriminatory, retaliatory, and

    misconduct

    o

    whites or white enough male who have engaged in discriminatory and

    unlawful conduct with regards to my professional work and professional discretion, without

    any reason, other than to disrupt my meticulous and professional work directed at the highest

    standard o care for the patients. My performance at work was as expected, and it exceeded

    the lower standards demanded by the shady practices

    o

    the Defendant, and I am absolutely

    certain that in context

    o

    the professional's duties and from the facts that I submitted in Rule

    56.1 Statements

    o

    Fact that my communication and my activities as noted in termination

    letter would have hen entirely acceptable to the Defendants as my right, i I were not in my

    protected class

    o

    woman physician

    o

    Indian National Origin. According to Judge

    McMahon, any activity by a contracted employee that displeases the employer can lead to

    termination

    o

    employment, so why then keep any employee who does anything negative for

    which one employee is terminated but does not lead to the termination

    o

    another contracted

    professional employee. Her discussion

    o

    the law and her legal conclusion does not hold

    water and should be reviewed de novo in light

    o

    the disputes

    o

    facts and established facts

    o

    the case.

    3.

    The facts

    o

    the case as submitted in my Rule 56.1 statement support the cause

    o

    action

    o

    tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, and the violation o

    42

    U.S.C.

    1981

    o

    the Civil Rights Act, that lead to a substantial question

    o

    law that should be

    answered and adjudicated. I did not do anything wrong in how I did my work on December

    2010 or following this date until the termination

    o

    my employment. I worked diligently to

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    get my patient care work done, educate myself, and be competent at workplace with

    extensive problems. The Defendants have sabotaged me as seen from the facts with their

    whole cloth fabrications and allegations that are simply untrue or the entirely subjective

    assessment

    of

    my professional work by malicious individuals who collaborated to terminate

    my employment, I cannot succeed in that milieu

    of

    hate, discrimination, low standards

    of

    care, and lack

    of

    support, especially because I belong to a protected class, who is not

    afforded the same rights by the Defendants. I can succeed on objective measures but

    i l am

    subjected to subjective assessments

    of

    Defendant Institution who have attacked and

    destroyed my life, it's impossible to overcome that racism sexism and retaliation, the court

    has to intervene for me to be able to repair the damages. This tortious action is a continuous

    action with the creation

    of

    an objectively false summative evaluation in conjunction with

    lawyers, improper hospital personnel, and others. Judge McMahon ignored the fact that the

    Defendants informed the potential employer that I had filed a lawsuit against Mount Sinai

    Medical Center and that I was to dismiss the lawsuit, although I had not filed a lawsuit at that

    time and my only complaint was with EEOC, which Mount Sinai Medical Center refused to

    mediate on either. Instead, they continued to create various materials against me since my

    filing of the EEOC complaint in November 2011 such as with their House Staff Affairs

    Committee decisions etc, including the refusal to correspond with regards to new

    employment opportunity for me at another local Institution.

    4. The facts of the case, submitted in Plaintiff's Rule 56.1 statement with the evidence support

    the cause

    of

    actions that the Defendants interfered with reckless disregard to the protected

    FMLA rights, notwithstanding the facts as understood by Judge McMahon. The random

    forced leave

    of

    a minority professional is not acceptable when an employee requests

    foreseeable FMLA without much other information available to the employer. A foreseeable

    FMLA could take place for a planned surgery, pregnancy, or to care for a family member

    etc The Defendants are not my physician nor does it have any access to my health records

    for it to make any judgments as to a request for forseeable leave. I was informed by Caryn

    Tiger-Paillex, Director

    ofHR

    that the Defendant Institution she did not even understand that

    request of FMLA as the reason for my being barred from attending work on September 20,

    2011. She also informed me that I was to report to work later. She also was unaware

    if

    the

    leave was for myself or for the care

    of

    a family member. I did not do anything wrong for the

    Defendants to have acted as they did to harass me and create a hostile workplace for

    me

    from

    which I was barred on one day and my employment terminated from the following day with

    their six reasons that to any professional will understand are pretext, even without any fact-

    finding that Defendants cannot defend

    or

    even argue as legitimate reasons for termination

    of

    the employment of a professional employee. I have proved the pretext by my rebuttal in

    Rule 56.1 statements with the evidence that I submitted. The Defendants were also aware

    that I was represented by legal counsel but they were not contacted either during this period

    on any of these matters, despite all the allegations that the issues were so serious to warrant

    termination

    of

    my employment, and in fact, I was only made aware of the reasons as either

    existing

    or

    being a reason for termination

    of

    contracted employment

    on

    the date that my

    employment was terminated for all six reasons. This fact also goes to point out that my

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    performance at work was as expected, and I am absolutely certain that in context o the

    professional's duties and from the facts that I submitted in Rule 56 1 Statements

    o

    Fact that

    my communication and my activities as noted in termination letter would be entirely

    acceptable to the Defendants as my right, i I were not in my protected class.

    5 The facts

    o

    the case as submitted in my Rule 56 1 statement support the cause

    o

    action the

    aiding and abetting liability against the individual defendants in the commission o torts, and

    the violation o 42 U.S.C. 1981 o the Civil Rights Act, that lead to a substantial question o

    law that should be answered and adjudicated. The discovery has shown that innumerable

    malicious actions were being engaged in by the Defendants against me, that has lead to the

    termination

    o

    my employment, despite the fact that I did nothing wrong or engage in any

    unprofessional activity. In September 2011, my email was likely hacked by the Defendants

    because my emails were being edited or deleted as I was typing it using the Defendant

    Institution's email server. I wrote several emails that simply disappeared, the content would

    disappear as I was typing the email, and numerous other older emails were deleted from the

    Mount Sinai Medical Center's email server during this period. However, one email that I

    wrote outlining my concerns that the Defendants were creating a hostile work environment

    managed to not be deleted from the email servers, but only after multiple attempts to send

    the message. Following my email, Jordan stated that she was terrified o me while she was

    at home around 11pm. During this time, Jordan, following her initial allegations she was

    afraid, the following day she also stated again while at work, that she was afraid o me in her

    emails to various supervisors, even though I was not even at work by saying things such as

    she will lash out etc. . . She later admitted that she lied but she was afraid o being reported

    for drinking alcohol at work to NY State Department

    o

    Health in September 2011. In April

    2011, Caryn Tiger-Paillex informed me that she felt that Jordan was likely to harass me as

    the Chief Resident. I considered this issue, and I left a voicemail for Tiger-Paillex informing

    her that I agreed with her on this issue, and that Jordan should not be promoted to Chief

    Resident because

    o

    her involvement in the incidents with me and her history

    o

    drinking

    alcohol at work, poor judgment, among other issues with disruption o patient care, and her

    lack o qualifications with her being a full year below my post-graduate year. Jordan was a

    tool to retaliate against me, much like McCash, and both made false allegations against me,

    as a proxy for the Defendants, which the Defendants knew were false since they admitted

    that her various allegations were false, just like McCash had admitted to December 2010

    incidents as being his responsibility. However, the Defendants only took further negative

    actions against only me, to terminate my employment, while promoting Jordan, instead they

    maligned me with various false allegations and disciplinary actions, essentially preventing

    me from even being considered for the Chief Resident spot that i not for the December 2010

    issues, the Defendants would have had to request o me to consider. The question o law is

    should Jordan and McCash after admitting to making false allegations o another employee

    that the employer knew as false, should the targeted employee, whose employment was

    terminated be afforded legal protections. I also compared myself and my activities for which

    I was targeted by Defendants to note that similar and far more egregious activities o my

    coworkers were not being reprimanded even though they were in violation o hospital policy

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    and for their involvement in various disruptions and outbursts on numerous occasions as

    evidenced in Rule 56 1 Statement

    o

    Facts with referenced evidence, and that they were not

    being referred to Physician Wellness Committee, a committee o the Board o Trustees, to be

    evaluated for fitness for duty. However, I was targeted for one instance where my essentially

    mild response was to being harassed and attacked yet again in the middle

    o

    delivering

    patient care as a professional, and even in that instance, my conduct did not even rise to any

    unprofessional level such as their actions and their conduct.

    onclusion

    The result o the trial court's vacuous management o employment cases is that in over

    99

    o

    these cases, the decision by the Judges, ultimately mirrors the language, rhetoric, and

    racist conduct o the Defendant's from which the Plaintiff is seeking relief and adjudication in

    the United States Federal Courts4, but with added fabricated facts and new allegations that are

    invalid in the context o a discrimination case where discovery was limited, for example, my

    performance as a professional based on subjective perceptions

    o

    Defendants and their proxies,

    that cannot be compared. The Judges disparage and attack the Plaintiff and her case, irrespective

    o the sufficient presentation o facts and the basis in law to overcome the Motion for Summary

    Judgment against the non-moving party. Unfortunately, the literature

    o

    statistical and directed

    review o the Federal Circuit Judiciary has been informative. The Second Circuit Judiciary is

    adverse to ruling in favor o minorities, which even encompass professional minorities in

    professional fields such as medicine and law, who meet the set factual and legal standards

    necessary at the motion for summary judgment and trial, against Defendant's white lawyer, the

    white individual Defendants and white corporations

    5

    The Second Circuit, like other circuits,

    also are made up o mostly Judges with background in working for large corporate firms and on

    the side

    o

    vested powerful interests and against Plaintiffs in employment and other

    discrimination cases

    6

    . Therefore, the impermissible goal o the trial court now appears is solely

    to serve as the henchmen for white Defendants in employment discrimination cases, thereby

    acting to disenfranchise and marginalize the individual Plaintiff from their property and

    4

    generally, Swaminathan,

    Anand.

    The Rubric of Force: Employment Discrimination in the Context of

    Subtle Biases and Judicial Hostility. The Modern American, Spring 2007, 21-31.

    5

    ibid. at 26

    6

    generally, A Report By The National Employment Lawyers Association, Judicial Hostility To Workers'

    Rights: The Case For Professional Diversity On The Federal Bench, February 2012. and at p 11

    9

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    profession

    7

    , and further violate the minority Plaintiff's civil rights in the most subversive and

    unconstitutional manner8.

    Any review

    of

    the 2nd Circuit's Civil Rights and torts in employment law decisions

    produce a result that is revealing

    of

    the long list

    of

    negatively decided cases against Plaintiffs,

    and therefore, a very small list

    of

    case law supporting Plaintiffs to really argue and develop their

    cases, even when armed with sound evidence on which disputes of facts merit a trial by jury

    9

    Even the discussions in the vagaries

    of

    law are often centered on how much

    a

    fact can be

    viewed as discriminatory or hostile or retaliatory by a majority White and historically male Court

    ofAppeals, rather than to have these sort

    of

    questions being answered by trial

    1

    .

    I think that the Federal District Court's actions such as in the decision by Judge

    McMahon, that is based in her inventions

    of

    new facts such as that I was on forced leave of

    which neither

    I

    nor my lawyers were informed of as such in 2011, constitute to openly advance a

    larger society where White employers, which constitute majority

    of

    employers in United States,

    just as in my case, can utilize impermissible factors to influence their decisions with regards to

    discipline of a professional minority women employee, engage in rampant disparate treatment

    of

    the professional minority women employee, prevent professional minority women from

    exercising their professional opinions in workplace matters, prevent professional minority

    women from enjoying the same rights afforded to their white professional employees and their

    male professional employees, randomly remove minority professional women from workplace as

    a forced leave, and interfere with the professional employee's career going forward with

    fabrications and retaliation, as the former Defendant employer sees fit. Plaintiffs filing lawsuits

    against employers on discrimination and torts are disparaged and retaliated against broadly by

    everyone including the courts, the lawyers, and the potential employers, majority

    of

    all these

    different groups consist of Caucasian decision makers, as in my experience, yet, the monetary

    gains in the court system is largely based on Plaintiff's who believe that courts adjudicate matters

    7

    Discovery in Disciplinary Proceedings Report, SUBSTANTIVE REPORTS, REPORTS 2015, Approved

    by the Executive Committee on July 23, 2015. p. 21 A law license is unquestionably property in the

    constitutional sense

    of

    a lawyer having a legitimate claim

    of

    entitlement to

    it,

    Bell v. Burson, 402 U.S. 535

    (1971 ; Barry v. Barchi, 443 U.S. 55 (1979), particularly given the recognition

    of

    property

    in

    the

    constitutional sense

    in

    such interests as a college professor's position in Perry v. Sindermann, 4 8 U.S.

    593 (1972). II

    http://www nysba org/Worl

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    before it in a fair manner when it is questionable that the court has any such intention to

    adjudicate in a fair and equitable manner

    11

    ,

    12

    .

    The facts are that I worked on over 15000 cases without any diagnostic or professional

    errors from my work from which the Defendant Institution benefited from, especially during the

    most arduous working years in a Pathology post-graduate work, which were the first three years

    of

    the post-graduate work that I completed satisfactorily. After the December 2010 incidents, I

    worked on thousands more cases using y professional judgment to manage every single one of

    my patient cases. My performance was above par compared to my coworkers, I was informed as

    much during my first year, second year, third year, and even just prior to the termination of my

    employment by the former program director, James Strauchen MD, Guang-Qian Xiao MD,

    Chandan Nagi MD Paul Endres MD, Azra Lemp MD among many other experienced

    Pathologist doctors that I worked with, meaning that I was on track

    to

    complete my contracted

    employment year, take the Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Board Certification exam, and

    continue in my chosen career,

    if

    not for the overt malicious tortious reprehensible and

    impermissible activities

    of

    the Defendants. I was more successful in my endeavors than most

    of

    my coworkers at meeting the real objective standards such as obtaining appropriate licensure,

    certification, as required by my employment contract, and I also pursued my professional

    education and goals independently

    of

    the Defendants such as paying for several review courses

    out of pocket, despite their racist sexist animosity and the retaliation against me to hinder my

    success. There

    is

    absolutely no objective evidence to suggest that I did anything wrong, in my

    handling of any incidents, especially compared to the Defendants racist sexist hostility and

    retaliation only against me. During the entire period

    of

    my employment with the Defendants,

    none of my actions warranted the disciplinary action against a professional minority woman, the

    termination

    of

    my employment, and other unlawful activities

    of

    the Defendants towards me. I

    have maintained my integrity as a professional doctor with high professional standards, which I

    think

    is

    also another subtext of their reasoning for maligning

    me

    and engaging in defamatory

    attacks. Only two weeks prior to the termination

    of

    my employment, I made independent

    diagnosis on several intra-operative cases on call, to which my Indian supervisor stated that he

    absolutely trusted my clinical judgment and decision making. Majority of my former

    supervisors, not just my being armed with Dr. Tamara Kalir, irrespective of their race and

    gender, have supported me and continue to support me because they know my professionalism

    and my professional skill in every aspect

    of

    my work. Only two days prior to my employment

    termination, I worked on numerous highly complicated hematopathology cases with extensive

    case histories and clinical data to arrive at the diagnoses, despite the ongoing attack on my

    employment, the much more egregious back ground situations that the Defendants were

    fabricating against me, as they were aiding and abetting one another to fabricate false narrative

    and situations to entrap and

    to

    place the blame on me. The extensive redactions in this case by

    the Defendants

    is

    very telling of that aspect of this case.

    11supra8.

    12

    Clermont, Kevin M., and Stewart

    J.

    Schwab. Employment discrimination plaintiffs

    n

    federal court: From bad to

    worse. Harv. L

    &

    Pol y

    v

    . 3 (2009): 103.

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    The individual Defendants and the Defendant Institution, Mount Sinai Medical Center

    made false allegations about me, sabotaged my future, and engaged in illegal impermissible

    discrimination and retaliated against me and they engaged in tortuous conduct knowingly, and

    they barred me from the workplace without any valid reason that can stand up to scrutiny, as

    discussed above. I merit all the same rights afforded to paying and represented litigants as a

    professional medical doctor who given the ability to continue my

    work as medical doctor would

    surely succeed, as I already had a track record

    of

    doing so. I am only poor because of the lack

    of

    any relief from the court and the refusal to adjudicate matters equitably so that I continue with

    my career, a constitutional right to my property. Rory McEvoy announced to Judge Francis that I

    had no performance issue in the meet and confer on July

    11

    2012, but the response was

    disparage me, bar much

    of

    comparator discovery, stating that a fishing expedition

    of

    my

    coworkers will not be allowed, but the court's activity is to engage in fishing expedition or

    searching review to string together an unmerited racist sexist delusional and false narrative.

    My case warrants a de novo review in it 's entirety. Magistrate Francis even stated that there has

    to be only one valid reason for termination ofmy contracted employment but as

    of

    today, there is

    no legitimate reason that have survived following my rebuttal

    of

    the Defendants proffered

    reasons.

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