Watts

MEMORANDUM **

Kellie Watts (“Watts”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment and its judgment, after a jury trial, in her Title VII action alleging race discrimination by the Secretary of the Navy (“Navy”) when she was denied retirement benefits and later terminated from her position at the Naval Exchange in Long Beach, California. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and we affirm.

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Watts first argues that the district court erred in granting the Navy’s motion for summary judgment on her claim that the Navy Retirement Subcommittee refused her request to buy back her pension rights based on race discrimination in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(l). Watts acknowledges that her personnel file contained two cards, bearing her signature, refusing participation in the pension plan. Even assuming the cards were forged, as Watts contends, Watts’s claim must fail. She has not provided any evidence that the Navy’s reliance on these refusal cards in denying her pension claim was a pretext for racial discrimination or that the Navy treated any similarly situated employee differently. See Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Prods., 530 U.S. 133, 143 , 120…