Gerald Morgan v. Pete Buttigieg

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

MAY 18 2022

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GERALD MORGAN, No. 21-15979

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:16-cv-04036-DLR

v.

MEMORANDUM*

PETE BUTTIGIEG, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation,

Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Douglas L. Rayes, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 14, 2022 San Francisco, California

Before: CLIFTON and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and REISS,** District Judge.

Gerald Morgan, a former electronics technician for the Federal Aviation

Administration, appeals from the district court’s judgment following a jury verdict

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Christina Reiss, United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, sitting by designation. in favor of the Government in this Title VII retaliation action. We have jurisdiction

under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review the district court’s…