Davis

BACKGROUND

22 Plaintiff Jasmine Davis filed this action in the Sacramento County Superior Court against 23 Defendant Cadence, her former employer, and Does 1–20 on October 17, 2023. (Doc. No. 1 at 24 17.) On December 20, 2023, Defendant removed this action to this court. (Doc. No. 1.) Plaintiff 25 filed a first amended complaint as a matter of course pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 15. (Doc. No. 8.) Defendant filed a motion to dismiss on March 1, 2024, which the court 27 summarily granted with leave to amend on April 15, 2024. (Doc. Nos. 9, 13.) Plaintiff 28 subsequently filed the operative second amended complaint (“SAC”) on May 3, 2024. (Doc. No. 14.) In her SAC, Plaintiff alleges the following. In December 2017, Plaintiff, an African-American woman, started working at Cadence Academy as a pre-school teacher. (Id. at ¶¶ 14, 74.) Plaintiff’s older child began attending Cadence Academy shortly after Plaintiff started working there. Plaintiff’s younger child, a son, began attending Cadence Academy in October 2018. (Id. at ¶ 15.) In October 2019, Katie Salvino, another Cadence Academy employee and daughter of the Cadence Academy…