Yvonne Leramo v. Premier Anesthesia Medical Gr.

MEMORANDUM

Plaintiff Yvonne Leramo sued Premier Anesthesia Medical Group and three of its partners, alleging workplace discrimination. Leramo appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendants. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

1. The district court properly granted summary judgment on Leramo’s disparate treatment claims. After the defendants articulated legitimate nondiscriminatory reasons — poor performance and staffing difficulties — for reducing Leramo’s hours and eventually refusing to renew her contract, Leramo failed to present evidence from which a reasonable jury could infer that these proffered reasons were pretext for discrimination. Leramo’s sole argument is that pretext is always a question for the jury. This argument is without merit. See, e.g., Bodett v. CoxCom, Inc., 366 F.3d 736, 744-45 (9th Cir.2004) (affirming summary judgment on disparate treatment claim where plaintiff failed to come forward with any evidence of pretext). Leramo has presented no evidence, beyond her possible minimal qualifications for the job, that would show that the defendants’ proffered reasons for the employment actions are not worthy of…