Wang
Wang v. City of Clear Lake
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JANE WANG, Case No. 19-cv-05370-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER DEFERRING IN PART;
v. GRANTING IN PART; AND DENYING
IN PART DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO
CITY OF CLEAR LAKE, et al., DISMISS Defendants. Docket No.
12 13 Plaintiff Jane Wang has filed suit against her former employer, the City of Clearlake, and two of its employees, Greg Folsom (City Manager) and Doug Herron (Director of Public Works). She asserts, for the most part, claims for employment discrimination based on sex and/or race. Currently pending before the Court is the City’s motion to dismiss the operative first amended complaint (“FAC”). I. FACTUAL & PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND In the FAC, Ms. Wang alleges as follows. Ms. Wang is an Asian woman. She began to work for the City in September 2017. See FAC ¶ 9. Although not entirely clear, it appears that she was hired to work as a City Engineer and/or Deputy Director of…