Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Kramarsky

Full title: METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, v. WERNER H…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: May 11, 1981

666 F.2d 26 (2d Cir. 1981)

Opinion

No. 19, Docket 80-7185.

Originally argued September 25, 1980.

Decided May 11, 1981. Petition for Rehearing filed June 9, 1981. Decided November 24, 1981.

Ann Thacher Anderson, Gen. Counsel, State Division of Human Rights, New York City, for defendants-appellants.

Jeffrey A. Mishkin, Jeffrey D. Fields, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz Mendelsohn, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before MOORE and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, and TENNEY, District Judge.^_

_ Honorable Charles H. Tenney, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

For the reasons stated today in our opinion on rehearing in Delta Airlines, Inc. v. Kramarsky, 666 F.2d 21, we vacate our original decision on this appeal, reported at 650 F.2d 1309, holding that § 514(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a) (1976), did not preempt New York's Human Rights Law, N.Y.Exec.Law § 296 (McKinney 1972 Supp. 1980-1981).

The judgment of the district court is affirmed.