Drevaleva
Drevaleva v. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
INTRODUCTION
17 Pro se plaintiff brings this repetitive employment action against federal defendants. 18 Defendants move to dismiss for failure to state a claim and lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. 19 20 For the reasons stated herein, the motion to dismiss the complaint is GRANTED.
STATEMENT
21 This is the third of separate lawsuits arising from the same pattern of facts. In May 22 2017, after working for about six weeks at New Mexico Veterans Affairs Medical Center 23 (VAMC), pro se plaintiff Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva suddenly went to Russia, evidently to 24 undergo in-vitro fertilization (IVF). She did not return until August 2017. That July, plaintiff 25 received a termination notice for being absent without leave (Dkt. No. 1 at 4). 26 In May 2018, plaintiff applied to work at the Minneapolis VAMC without disclosing 27 details about her VAMC termination in 2017. She received a tentative job offer. The offer was 28 1 subsequently rescinded, however, once Minneapolis VAMC learned the details of her 2017 2 VAMC termination (Dkt. No. 26 at 2). 3 In June 2018, plaintiff applied for a position at West Los Angeles VAMC and allegedly 4 disclosed facts about the…