A federal court has dismissed all but one claim in a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against Staten Island Judge Judith McMahon: that she transferred a court clerk in retaliation for reporting her alleged misconduct by making secret recordings.

U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York on Aug. 23 dismissed the bulk of a lawsuit filed by plaintiff Michael J. Pulizotto, who claimed that he faced anti-gay harassment and retaliation from McMahon and others in the court system.