Thomas

MEMORANDUM **

Steven L. Thomas appeals pro se the district court’s summary judgment dismissing his action alleging, among other things, racial discrimination, retaliation, slander, and violation of the First Amendment by the Los Rios Community College District and its employees when he was suspended for one year from the Licensed Vocational Nursing (“LVN”) program at Sacramento City College (“SCC”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . After de novo review, Conkle v. Jeong, 73 F.3d 909, 917 (9th Cir.1995), we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Thomas’s claims that the defendants violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by suspending him from the LVN program because of his race and in retaliation for engaging in prior litigation and complaining about SCC staff members. Thomas failed to rebut the defendants’ evidence that he was suspended for, among other things, rude and disruptive behavior and failing to comply with SCC’s Vocational Nursing Student Handbook. See Villiarimo v. Aloha Island Air, Inc., 281 F.3d 1054 , 1065 & n. 10 (9th Cir.2002); Bradley v. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 104 F.3d 267, 270 (9th Cir.1996); see also Larry P. by…