Footnote8

In the E.D.N.Y., employment discrimination actions amount to 25.3% - the single largest category - of cases referred to mediation. Gerald P. Lepp & Ieback Paick, E.D.N.Y. Mediation Report, July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004, at 3, available at http://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/adr/Mediationreport0704.pdf. Maria Sclafani, the Case Administrator for ADR in the S.D.N.Y., did not have the precise number of employment discrimination referrals but indicated that these comprise the largest group of cases sent to mediation. E-mail from Maria Sclafani to author (Dec. 6, 2004 11:25 EST) (on file with the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal).