Pringle

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 EVERETT PRINGLE, Case No. 19-cv-07432-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS SECOND AMENDED

COMPLAINT

ANDREW WHEELER, Re: Dkt. No. 28 Defendant.

12 Plaintiff Everett Pringle, an employee of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), claims that at various times between 2015 and 2020, he was discriminated against on the basis of race, subjected to a hostile work environment, and retaliated against for engaging in protected activities. Defendant Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the EPA, moves to dismiss, arguing that Pringle failed to exhaust administrative remedies and failed to state a claim. I will deny that motion, taking Pringle’s allegations as true, because: (i) his unexhausted allegations are like or reasonably related to the exhausted allegations in his administrative complaints; (ii) he has sufficiently pleaded a pattern of severe or pervasive conduct in support of his hostile work environment…