Kuigoua

Filed 4/17/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

ARNO PATRICK KUIGOUA, B323735

Plaintiff and Appellant, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 20STCV09073 v.

DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN

AFFAIRS,

Defendant and Respondent.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Stephen T. Morgan, Judge. Affirmed. The Guha Law Firm and Ranojoy Guha for Plaintiff and Appellant. Tiffany L. King, Deputy Secretary and Chief Counsel, Andia Farzaneh, Staff Counsel, and Samantha Lewis-Carden, Senior Staff Counsel for Defendant and Respondent. ____________________ Arno Kuigoua complained about employment oppression to an anti-discrimination agency and to a court. The trouble was he told two divergent stories: one to the agency, but a different one in court. By withholding from the agency the facts he would later allege in his judicial complaint, Kuigoua scotched the agency’s ability to learn about, and to conciliate, the dispute Kuigoua sought to litigate in the judicial forum. The court rightly granted summary judgment against Kuigoua for failing to exhaust his administrative…