Kurtz

MEMORANDUM *

Margaret Kurtz appeals the district court’s summary judgment in favor of her former employer, defendant-appellee Caesars Entertainment, Inc., in Kurtz’s Title VII action claiming retaliation in the form of subjection to a hostile work environment and eventual termination from her position. She alleged that the retaliation was for engaging in protected activity. See Ray v. Henderson, 217 F.3d 1234, 1240 (9th Cir.2000). The alleged protected conduct was a refusal to accompany her supervisor alone on an overnight business trip to Laughlin, Nevada. Kurtz took her husband with her on the trip. The district court held that she had not engaged in any protected activity. We affirm.

On appeal, her principal contention is that, while she may not have actually engaged in protected activity, her supervisor, and her supervisor’s superior who terminated her, mistakenly perceived her to have engaged in protected activity. She contends that her negative work evaluations and eventual termination stem from her supervisor’s perception that she was trying to avoid his sexual harassment. There is no indication, however, that her supervisor or anyone else in the company had ever sexually…