Ellis

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff and appellant Daryl Ellis (plaintiff) appeals from a judgment entered after the court granted a motion for summary judgment filed by defendants and respondents Alhambra Unified School District (District), Anna Kuo, and Christa Van Orden (collectively defendants). Plaintiff does not challenge the merits of the court’s ruling on the motion. Instead, he claims two procedural errors warrant reversal of the judgment. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

1. Complaint; Trial Date Plaintiff initiated this lawsuit against defendants in June 2019. The operative fifth amended complaint, filed in February 2022, includes six causes of action under Government Code section 12940 (discrimination on the basis of race, age, and disability, failure to accommodate disability, harassment, failure to prevent discrimination and harassment) and five additional claims related to plaintiff’s employment and termination of employment with the District. In April 2021, the court set the case for trial on August 22, 2022.

1 Although plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered after the court

granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment, he only challenges…