Del Castillo v. Department of Health & Human Services

MEMORANDUM *

Esperanza Diaz del Castillo (“Diaz del Castillo”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in her action against the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (the “DSHS”) alleging discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, age, and gender in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, the Washington Law Against Discrimination (“WLAD”), and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”). 1 The district court granted the DSHS’s motion for summary judgment on Diaz del Castillo’s Title VII claims because Diaz del Castillo did not produce sufficient prima facie evidence of discrimination, and did not produce evidence that the DSHS’s proffered nondiscriminatory reasons for its actions were pretextual. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm for substantially the same reasons stated by the district court. 2

We review de novo a district court’s grant of summary judgment. Cornwell v. Electra Cent. Credit Union, 439 F.3d 1018 , 1027 n. 4 (9th Cir.2006). “Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, we must determine *609 whether there are genuine issues of…