Chinea-Varela

MEMORANDUM **

Migdia Chinea-Varela filed discrimination, retaliation, and harassment claims against CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (CBS), Writers Guild of America (WGA), and named defendants Frank Pierson, Brian Walton, Jeff Sagansky, and Charles Se-gars pursuant to Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Cal. Gov’t Code § 12940, et seq. This is Varela’s second appeal to this court. A panel of this court agreed with the district court that her complaint was “verbose, lengthy and convoluted,” in dereliction of Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a) and Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(e)(1), but remanded so that Varela could amend her complaint. See Chinea-Varela v. Columbia Broadcasting Systems, Inc., 4 Fed. Appx. 404, 405-6 (9th Cir.2001). On remand, the district court dismissed with prejudice Varela’s third amended complaint for all of her claims against WGA and the named defendants. The district court also dismissed all of Varela’s claims against CBS except for her retaliation claim. With respect to that claim, the district court granted summary judgment.

Varela alleged that an affirmative action trainee program that WGA negotiated and that CBS executed from 1993 to…