Redd-Oyedele

I. BACKGROUND

26 Plaintiff, an employee in the SCCOE’s District Business and Advisory Services 27 Case No.: 22-cv-02128-EJD Department who identifies as African American or Black, alleges that Defendants are discriminating against her on the basis of race and color by repeatedly rejecting her applications for promotions and instead promoting less-qualified white and fair-skinned candidates. See SAC. The Court summarized in greater detail Plaintiff’s essential allegations in its previous Orders and need not repeat those here. See First Order Granting Mot. to Dismiss (“First Order”), ECF No. 25; Second Order Granting Mot. to Dismiss (“Second Order”), ECF No. 34. Plaintiff asserts five claims in the SAC: (1) violation of Title VII under 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e) against SCCOE; (2) violation of Equal Protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment1 against all Defendants; (3) violation of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) against SCCOE; (4) conspiracy to deprive civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Individual Defendants; and (5) conspiracy “to deprive Equal Protection of the Laws” under 42 U.S.C. §…