Jones

BACKGROUND

23 Plaintiff Dollene Jones, who is representing herself, filed this lawsuit on January 17, 2020, 24 and filed an amended complaint on June 22, 2020. The amended complaint alleges that plaintiff is 25 a former employee of AC Transit District and that she retired in 2010. The amended complaint 26 27 names four individual defendants (Jeffrey Lewis, Davis Riemer, Hugo Wildmann, and Curtis Lim), all of whom are alleged to be members of the AC Transit Retirement Board. The amended complaint states that plaintiff is Black, female and a lesbian, and that she has been discriminated against on account of her race, color and gender/sex. First Amended Compl. Sections 3 & 4. Plaintiff alleges that defendants discriminated against her by temporarily “holding back” a portion of her retirement benefits because plaintiff had previously registered two different same-sex domestic partnerships with the AC Transit Employees’ Retirement System, despite the fact that she provided “proof from the Secretary of State of California . . . that showed she was not declared domestic partnered with anyone.” Id. at Section 2. Plaintiff alleges that it…