Jamilah Abdul-Haqq v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

MEMORANDUM

Jamilah Talibah Abdul-Haqq appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing her employment action alleging violations of Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), and California law. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo a dismissal for failure to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Hebbe v. Pliler, 627 F.3d 338, 341 (9th Cir. 2010). We may affirm on any basis supported by the record, Johnson v. Riverside Healthcare Sys., LP, 534 F.3d 1116, 1121 (9th Cir. 2008), and we affirm.

Dismissal of Abdul-Haqq’s Title VII, ADA, and Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) claims was proper because Abdul-Haqq failed to exhaust her administrative remedies as to those claims. See Freeman v. Oakland Unified Sch. Dist., 291 F.3d 632, 636 (9th Cir. 2002) (setting forth factors exhaustion requirement for Title VII claims); see also 42 U.S.C. § 12117(a) (extending Title VII exhaustion requirement to ADA); Rodriguez v. Airborne Express, 265 F.3d 890, 896 (9th Cir. 2001) (FEHA requires exhaustion- of administrative remedies).

The district court properly dismissed Abdul-Haqq’s intentional infliction of…