Pham
Pham v. Board of Regents UCSF
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 HIEU PHAM, Case No. 17-cv-04194-WHO
Plaintiff, ORDER ON DEFENDANTS' MOTION v. IN LIMINE #
BRIAN BAST, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 98 Defendants.
12 In their third motion in limine, defendants The Regents of the University of California (“University”) and Dr. Brian Bast (collectively, “the defendants”) seek to exclude any argument or evidence that other employees “complained about various things and adverse actions were ostensibly taken against them,” so as to establish a pattern of retaliation by Dr. Bast. Dkt. No. 98 at 5:3-8:5. The motion identified four other employees: Dr. Dennis Song, Tina Valaris, Annamarie Abrantes-Li, and Dr. Mark Crane. Id. When the Ninth Circuit found that there were sufficient genuine issues of material fact regarding pretext so as to survive summary judgment, it made a brief reference to “evidence in the record . . . that other employees of the department experienced negative…