A state appeals court has rejected claims of employment discrimination leveled by a fired professor at the renowned Culinary Institute of America, pointing to the former chef and restaurant owner’s inability to counter the institute’s firing him for his alleged “demeaning and insulting behavior towards students for years.”

An Appellate Division, Second Department panel has ruled that Clemens Averbeck, who was a faculty member at the Culinary Institute’s 170-acre Hudson Valley campus for nearly eight years, “failed to raise a triable issue of fact” after the institute moved for dismissal of his discrimination lawsuit against it while presenting a “legitimate, nondiscriminatory, and nonpretextual reason” for firing him.

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