Ann Hill v. County of Sacramento

MEMORANDUM

Plaintiff-Appellant Ann Hill appeals from the district court’s summary judgment dismissal of her lawsuit alleging that the County of Sacramento and its officials discriminated against her because of her race when the sublease for her concession stand at the Sacramento County Interna tional Airport was not renewed. As the facts and procedural history are familiar to the parties, we do not recite them here except as necessary to explain our disposition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

The district court correctly dismissed Hill’s claims under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, codified in 42 U.S.C. § 2000d-2000d-7, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Hill has failed to “show that actions of the defendants had a discriminatory impact, and that defendants acted with an intent or purpose to discriminate based upon [Hill’s] membership in a protected class.” Darensburg v. Metro. Transp. Comm’n, 636 F.3d 511, 522 (9th Cir.2011) (citation and quotation marks omitted). The decision not to renew Hill’s subcontract was part of a larger plan to improve the financial performance of the…