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I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND1

Prior to being laid off in 2011, plaintiffs were employed by Stanford at the Office of Technology Transfer at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (“SLAC”). SLAC is

1 We base our factual summary, in part, on the parties’ separate statements of undisputed material facts. The Code of Civil Procedure requires summary judgment opposition papers to “include a separate statement that responds to each of the material facts contended by the moving party to be undisputed, indicating whether the opposing party agrees or disagrees that those facts are undisputed,” and to include “a reference to the supporting evidence” where a fact is disputed. (Code Civ. Proc., § 437c, subd. (b)(3).) Plaintiffs failed to comply with these statutory directives. Their separate statement responded to only those material facts they disputed. We shall consider undisputed the material facts to which they did not respond. They also failed, in some instances, to reference any evidence in support of their contention that a particular fact is disputed. We shall consider those facts to be undisputed as well. operated by Stanford under a contract with the United States Department of…