Chalk up an indefinite delay in the case of the credit union CEO who sued his former credit union over allegations he was fired for upholding state and federal equal employment rules to Hurricane Sandy.

Lawyers for the 78,000-member, $1.5 billion Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union were supposed to file the credit union's response to the allegations from former CEO Oskar Mielczarek that he had been fired after only one year for not going along with what he charged was the New York credit union's discriminatory hiring policies which instructed him to hire only Polish employees.

But Dena Epstein, an attorney with the national law firm Jackson Lewis, wrote the court on Oct. 31, blaming the storm for missing a filing deadline.

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