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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Chen denies for the most part the MTA’s motion for summary judgment and allows an employment discrimination complaint to proceed to trial. The complaint alleges the city transportation agency passed over two experienced attorneys, one a 56-year-old Asian woman and the other a 58-year-old Black woman, for a promotion to the agency’s Bronx Tort Division on the basis of their age, sex and race and instead gave the position to a younger, much less qualified white man. The litigants successfully rebut the agency’s arguments justifying the white candidate’s promotion by alleging they were far more qualified for the position — one of the women has more than 20 years of law experience — and that he did not have the requisite managerial experience. The court leaves it up to a jury to determine whether the agency’s proffered reasons for promoting the white candidate were credible or were instead pretextual.