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Jan. 30--The British banker who is part of the $1.4 billion sex discrimination case against Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein has been singled out by the investment bank in a move to have her case dismissed by the New York Court.
The German bank filed papers over the weekend that accused the six women, who have launched one of the largest claims seen in Wall Street of the City, of courting publicity and making "scandalous allegations."
In particular it has called for the case by Katherine Smith, who claimed she was referred to as the "Pamela Anderson of trading" in the London office, to be dismissed.
Dresdner claims that Smith cannot apply the US Equal Pay Act in a foreign workplace, cannot use New York law to make her claim and that her employment in England is not covered by New York State and City human rights law.
Dresdner calls for the claim that strip clubs are "apparently a favourite haunt of DKW's male employees to be struck out because it is "scandalous" and "impertinent". It also accuses the defendants of a "blatant appeal to prejudice" in referring to DKW "the German Investment bank" because there are no "claims of national origin discrimination".
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