Suleimanyan

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts1

A. Plaintiff’s employment Plaintiff was hired by United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) in September 2015 to work as a political organizer. She resigned

Consistent with the pertinent standard of review, we resolve all conflicts in the evidence in favor of plaintiff (as the party opposing summary adjudication and judgment) except in the many instances in which plaintiff’s declaration in support of her opposition conflicts with her prior deposition testimony, with her discovery responses, or with other statements in her declaration (because a party is not allowed to manufacture disputes of fact by contradicting herself). (Scalf v. D. B. Log Homes, Inc. (2005) 128 Cal.App.4th 1510, 1521-1522; Whitmire v.

2 from her position in November 2019, although she took several leaves of absence (from October 2017 to January 2018, from April 2018 to January 2019, and from August 2019 to November 2019). UTLA also employed field director Brian McNamara (McNamara) and representation coordinator Carl Joseph (Joseph). Although plaintiff worked with those individuals, neither of them served as her supervisor. B. McNamara’s conduct…