Karen Taylor v. Department of the Air Force

MEMORANDUM

Karen M. Taylor appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in her employment action alleging violations of Title VII and the Rehabilitation Act. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, and we may affirm on any basis supported by the record. Hawn v. Exec. Jet Mgmt., Inc., 615 F.3d 1151, 1155 (9th Cir.2010). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Taylor’s racial and disability discrimination claims because Taylor failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants’ legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for their actions were pretextual. See id. at 1155-56, 1158 (providing framework for analyzing a discrimination claim under Title VII and noting that circumstantial evidence of pretext must be specific and substantial); Lucero v. Hart, 915 F.2d 1367, 1371 (9th Cir.1990) (elements of a disability discrimination claim under the Rehabilitation Act); see also Pelletier v. Fed. Home Loan Bank of S.F., 968 F.2d 865, 872 (9th Cir.1992) (to survive summary judgment, nonmovant “ordinarily must furnish affidavits containing admissible evidence tending to show the existence of a genuine…