The New York City agency, which duplicates the functions of such federal antidiscrimination agencies as the EEOC and yet adopts an even wider mandate, "interprets 'discrimination' in the most extraordinary ways", notes Brian Anderson, senior editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. See, for example, Sept. 9.

Incidentally, we've just created a new posting category entitled "New York & Region" for the many posts that reflect legal issues arising in New York City/State and neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut.