Bayne
Bayne v. Bowles Hall Foundation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
MELISSA L. BAYNE,
Case No. 21-cv-01959-JCS Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING REGENTS OF v. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA’S MOTION TO DISMISS AND BOWLES HALL FOUNDATION, et al., GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART BOWLES HALL Defendants. FOUNDATION’S MOTIONS TO DISMISS
12 Re: Dkt. Nos. 14, 15 13 14 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Melissa Bayne (“Dr. Bayne”) brings this gender discrimination and retaliation case against the Regents of the University of California (“Regents”) and the Bowles Hall Foundation (“BHF”), asserting that Defendants declined to renew her employment contract, thereby effectively terminating her as Dean of Bowles Hall Residential College, in retaliation for Dr. Bayne’s reporting of conduct by another Bowles Hall advisor who allegedly created a toxic culture for female residents. The Regents…