Youngblood

MEMORANDUM **

Victoria Youngblood has worked for the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) at the Los Angeles Teleservice Center (“LATC”) since 1983. In December 2004, she filed a complaint under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, alleging that the hiring practices of the SSA in southern California subjected her, and other employees at the LATC, to disparate treatment and disparate impact discrimination on account of their race. Youngblood now appeals the district court’s denial of her motion to certify a conditional class and grant of summary judgment for the SSA on her individual claims. We affirm the district court on both issues.

As described in the district court’s careful and thorough opinion, Youngblood’s complaint offered no reason to believe that common questions of law or fact existed among numerous class members, that these common questions predominated over individual issues, or that a class action was a superior vehicle for resolving them. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(a)-(b). Youngblood’s vague and conclusory allegation that an open hiring process was administered to produce “a significantly discriminatory impact” fails to identify a specific act, policy, or…