Maduka
Maduka v. Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Appellant Godwin Maduka (“Appellant”) appeals the district court’s decision granting summary judgment for Appellee Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation (“Columbia”) on Appellant’s 42 U.S.C. § 1981 discrimination claim. The facts and procedural history are familiar to the parties, and we do not repeat them here. We review a district court’s decision granting summary judgment de novo. Rossi v. Motion Picture Ass’n of Am. Inc., 391 F.3d 1000, 1002 (9th Cir.2004).
*710 The only issue is whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment for Columbia on Appellant’s § 1981 claim, or “[m]ore specifically, the issue is whether [Appellant] made out a sufficient ‘prima facia case of discrimination’ to create a genuine issue of material fact sufficient to foreclose summary judgment.” Fong v. Am. Airlines, Inc., 626 F.2d 759, 761 (1980). To prevail, Appellant “must offer evidence that ‘give[s] rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination,’ either through the framework set forth in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green [, 411 U.S. 792 , 93 S.Ct. 1817 , 36 L.Ed.2d 668 (1973),] or with direct or circumstantial evidence of discriminatory intent.” Vasquez v. County of Los…