Mack

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs, Marjorie Mack and Shannon-Joy Gossett, appeal from the trial court‘s orders and judgment in favor of defendant City of Hawthorne (the city). They argue it was error to grant the city‘s motion for summary adjudication of their race and gender discrimination claims. Plaintiffs also contend the trial court erred in granting the city‘s nonsuit motion on the retaliation claim. In addition, plaintiffs challenge the trial court‘s evidentiary rulings before and during trial. We affirm the orders and judgment.

II. BACKGROUND

A. First Amended Complaint

Plaintiffs sued the city, Jag Pathirana, Robert O‘Brien, Hamid Pournamdari, Larry Guido, and Steven Romero asserting claims for: retaliation, racial, gender and disability discrimination; hostile work environment, racial, gender, disability harassment; and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Plaintiffs were African American female employees of the city‘s housing department. Ms. Mack was a housing specialist. Ms. Gossett was a Section 8 housing inspector. Plaintiffs alleged the city discriminated against two other African American female employees, Cheryl Williams and Rose McKinney. At her April 16,…