Young

MEMORANDUM **

Plaintiff-Appellant Joe Young appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of Defendant-Appellee, General Motors Corporation (“GM”). The district court found that Appellant failed to satisfy his burden on his discrimination claims arising under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”) and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (“ADEA”). We review the district court’s order de novo, Wallis v. J.R. Simplot Co., 26 F.3d 885, 888 (9th Cir.1994), and we affirm.

Appellant failed to establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the ADA because there is no reasonable inference that GM’s employment decision was based on Appellant’s wife’s disability. See Hilburn v. Murata Elecs. N. Am., Inc., 181 F.3d 1220, 1230-31 (11th Cir.1999). GM declined to hire Appellant before his wife became disabled, so there is no reasonable inference that her disability was a determining factor in GM’s decision not to extend Appellant an offer of employment after she became ill.

*621 With respect to Appellant’s claims under the ADEA, the district court properly determined that, while he successfully established a prima facie case of age discrimination,…