Correa

MEMORANDUM *

Plaintiff-appellant, Karey Correa, appeals from the district court’s summary judgment in this Title VII action in favor of defendants-appellees, Hawaiian Airlines and their supervisory employees. The gravamen of her complaint was that the defendants violated Title VII by retaliating against her for filing an administrative complaint for sexual harassment and discriminated against her in filling a new position.

Although the plaintiff pursued administrative remedies for the alleged harassment, she did not file any administrative complaint for the alleged retaliation and discrimination, which occurred after the state agency had completed its investigation and after the state and federal agencies had issued right-to-sue letters on the harassment claim. The district court therefore did not err in dismissing her complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies as required by both federal and Hawaii state employment-discrimination law. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5; Haw. Rev.Stat. §§ 868, 378.

Appellant argues that the district court nevertheless could have heard the claims because they are “like or reasonably related” to the allegations in her administrative complaint. See…