Janice Smets v. Donald Winter

MEMORANDUM

The Navy provided a legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for its 2003 decision to eliminate use of video teletraining technology. The district court precluded Smets from introducing internet printouts to establish the cost-effectiveness of.the video teletraining program, a ruling that Smets does not challenge on appeal, and Smets introduced no other evidence that the Navy’s proffered reason was pretextual or that the decision was in retaliation for Smets’s EEOC activity. Therefore, Smets did not establish a genuine issue of material fact as to retaliation. See Cornwell v. Electra Cent. Credit Union, 439 F.3d 1018 , 1028 n. 6 (9th Cir.2006); Villiarimo v. Aloha Island Air, Inc., 281 F.3d 1054, 1062-63 (9th Cir.2002).

Nor did Smets create a genuine issue of material fact as to her claim that the Navy rescinded its 2006 job offer in retaliation against Smets’s EEOC activity. Smets failed to produce any evidence regarding the content of the telephone call between Sanchez and a Navy attorney, and her textually unsupported interpretation of Sanchez’s declaration does not create a genuine issue of material fact. See Villiarimo, 281 F.3d at 1061 , 1065 n. 10.

Although Smets…