Navarro

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RENALDO NAVARRO, Case No. 19-cv-08157-VC

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFANDANT'S v. MOTION FOR SUMMARY

JUDGMENT

MENZIES AVIATION, INC.,

Re: Dkt. No. 28 Defendant.

Because Navarro has not properly introduced any evidence from which a reasonable jury could find that his firing violated California law, Menzies’ motion for summary judgment is granted. Newly Submitted Opposition Evidence As a preliminary matter, it would not be proper for the Court to consider the factual allegations and evidence introduced for the first time in Navarro’s opposition to summary judgment. Wasco Products, Inc. v. Southwall Technologies, Inc., 435 F.3d 989, 992 (9th Cir. 2006). Prior to that brief, in all his filings and all his discovery conduct Navarro told a consistent story: that fuelers complained to Navarro, who is a supervisor, that another supervisor named Andrew Dodge had been sleeping on the job and failing to give them meal and rest breaks; that Navarro signed a petition seeking to have Dodge fired for that conduct; that Navarro was fired for signing the petition; and that this…