Sidhu

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GURPREET SIDHU, ) Case No.: 1:19-cv-01020-JLT ) Plaintiff, ) ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION ) FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT v. ) ) (Doc. 18) STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DEPARTMENT )

OF CORRECTIONS AND

REHABILITATION, et al., ) ) ) Defendants. ) )

Plaintiff is a female staff dentist at Wasco State Prison. She raises claims of gender discrimination and retaliation against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and supervising dentist Dr. Hani Guirguis. Plaintiff claims that Dr. Guirguis engaged in a series of discriminatory acts based on her gender: imposing reporting requirements and administrative procedures on her that were not required of other male dentists, choosing male dentists instead of her to attend a training session at CDCR headquarters, making derogatory comments about women, and refusing to move her to a different location at Wasco…