Ghirmai
Ghirmai v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM *
Abel Ghirmai appeals the district court’s grant of Northwest Airlines’s summary-judgment motion dismissing his claims of race and national origin discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 , and the Washington Law Against Discrimination, RCW § 49.60. We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo. Porter v. Cal. Dept, of Corr., 383 F.3d 1018,1024 (9th Cir.2004).
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Ghirmai, we conclude that there are genuine issues of material fact and reverse the grant of summary judgment as to Ghirmai’s disparate treatment claim. See Stegall v. Citadel Broad. Co., 350 F.3d 1061, 1065 (9th Cir.2003). We affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment as to Ghirmai’s retaliation claim.
I.
Under the burden-shifting framework of McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 , 93 S.Ct. 1817 , 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973), Ghirmai established a prima facie case of national origin and race discrimination. See Aragon v. Republic Silver State Disposal Inc., 292 F.3d 654, 658-60 (9th Cir.2002). “The burden therefore shifted to respondent to ‘produc[e] evidence that the…