Seyed Saeid Zamanieh Shahri v. Los Rios Community College District

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SEYED SAEID ZAMANIEH SHAHRI, Case No. 2:23-cv-1569-DJC-JDP (PS) Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS LOS RIOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

DISTRICT,

15 Defendant.

17 Plaintiff brings this case alleging that defendant Los Rios Community College District violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by unlawfully terminating his employment in retaliation for a discrimination complaint that he and his wife filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). ECF No. 42 at 14. Pending is his motion to strike portions of defendant’s answer, ECF No. 63, which defendant has opposed, ECF No. 65, and plaintiff has submitted a reply in support of, ECF No. 67. After review of the pleadings, I recommend that the motion to strike be granted in part. Under Rule 12(f) “[t]he court may strike from a pleading an insufficient defense or any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter.” The function of this rule “is to avoid…