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Hills v. Service Employees International Union

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520 F. App'x 555
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMay 22, 201311-56611California454 words

Opinion

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

Roland Hills appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his action alleging federal law violations in connection with his union’s failure to pursue a grievance for race discrimination and to provide him with various union documents. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Leong v. Potter, 347 F.3d 1117, 1123-24 (9th Cir.2003). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Hills’s discrimination claims because Hills failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether he was a victim of intentional discrimination. See Beck v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 99, 506 F.3d 874 , 882-85 & n. 4 (9th Cir.2007) (discussing the analytical framework applicable to a race discrimination claim against a union under Title VII, and explaining that “a union member must ... introduce evidence that the member “was singled out and treated less favorably than others similarly situated on account of race’ ” (citation omitted)); El-Hakem v. BJY Inc., 415 F.3d 1068, 1075 (9th Cir.2005) (“[T]he ‘legal principles guiding a court in a Title VII dispute apply with equal force in a § 1981 action.’ ”…

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