Watts
Watts v. Gateway Public Schools
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 ASHLI WATTS, Case No. 24-cv-09417-LB
12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
DISMISS
13 v. Re: ECF No. 14 14 GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 15 Defendant. 16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 Plaintiff Ashli Watts sued her former employer, Gateway Public Schools, alleging retaliation 19 and termination due to her pregnancy leave and complaints about race and pregnancy 20 discrimination, in violation of state and federal law, and seeking punitive damages (among other 21 remedies).1 Gateway — a public-charter school and a nonprofit public-benefit corporation2 — 22 argues that as a public entity, it is not liable for punitive damages or subject to a claim for wrongful 23 24
25 1 Compl. – ECF No. 1 at 2 (¶¶ 5–6), 17–22 (¶¶ 156–201). Citations refer to material in the Electronic 26 Case File (ECF); pinpoint citations are to the ECF-generated page numbers at the top of documents. 2 Id. (¶ 12) (public charter school);…