Gondola v. Center Moriches Union Free School Dist

In Gondola v. Center Moriches Union Free School Dist., 80 AD2d 600 [2nd Dept. 1981] the court held that Executive Law Section 297[9] only prohibits an aggrieved individual from pursuing the same relief on a single discriminatory grievance alleging the same wrongs in two separate forums (Gondola, 80 AD2d at 601). Indeed, the court noted that "this statute cannot be employed to bar an aggrieved person from maintaining a proceeding before the State Division of Human Rights based upon a discrimination complaint, while contemporaneously maintaining an action in the courts based on the alleged breach of an employment contract" (id.)