Ramirez
Ramirez v. Oakland Unified School District
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division MIRELLA RAMIREZ, Case No. 24-cv-09223-LB
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL Re: ECF No. 25 DISTRICT, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff Mirella Ramirez, a former teacher, was terminated after she refused to use a student’s preferred pronouns.1 Ms. Ramirez is a devout Catholic who believes it is against her religion to use pronouns that differ from a person’s “divinely-intended gender.”2 The district moved the student to a different classroom and initiated a disciplinary action against Ms. Ramirez that led to her termination.3 The defendants are Oakland Unified School District, its employees Tara Gard, Lisa Contreras, Violeta Escobar, Angela Bagami-Knight, and Jeff Dillon, in their individual capacities, and its
1 Compl. – ECF No. 1 at 2–3 (¶¶ 1–6). Citations refer to material in the…