Ramirez

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 MIRELLA RAMIREZ, Case No. 24-cv-09223-LB

12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

DISMISS SECOND AMENDED

13 v. COMPLAINT

14 OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL Re: ECF No. 62 DISTRICT, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 This case arises from the termination of plaintiff Mirella Ramirez, a former kindergarten 19 teacher at the Oakland Unified School District’s Melrose Leadership Academy, after she refused 20 to use a student’s preferred male pronouns due to her religious beliefs as a devout Catholic. The 21 plaintiff alleges that her termination violated her First Amendment rights to free speech and free 22 exercise of religion under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, as well as her rights under Title VII of the Civil 23 Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., including failure to accommodate her religion and 24 religious discrimination. She sues the District and several individual…