Dobbs

BACKGROUND

Allegations of the Third Amended Complaint The following was alleged generally in the third amended complaint: In September 2008, while employed as a dean with the District, Dobbs attended a campus meeting during which Al Alt, who was then the District’s Director of Human Resources, “used age related epithets” and made “other threats” while engaging in unspecified conduct Dobbs claimed to amount to “assault and battery.” Dobbs was “over 40 years old” at the time. Dobbs claimed to have “feared for his personal safety” during the incident and “promptly reported [the incident] through a formal administrative complaint to [District] Chancellor Nicky H[a]rrington,” but the District “took no corrective action against Alt,” who was later promoted to the position of Vice Chancellor. Dobbs also claimed to have suffered other “improper, tortious and, at times, unethical conduct” by Alt and other unspecified administrators employed by the District, adding that he “observed and experienced abusive, hostile conduct to himself and other older administrators, faculty and staff” that Dobbs also reported to the District. Dobbs provided no details of these alleged other occasions of…