Shahrivar

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FARID SHAHRIVAR,

Case No. 10-cv-01029-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT DAVID SYKES, et al., 13 Defendants.

15 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Farid Shahrivar filed this case more than a decade ago against the City of San Jose and numerous individual defendants alleging a plethora of claims all generally relating to his contention that he had been discriminated against based on his status as a Muslim of “Middle Eastern, Persian/Iranian race” during his employment by the City as a civil engineer. Following multiple rounds of motion practice and amendments to the complaint, the action was eventually dismissed in its entirety. Lengthy appellate proceedings ultimately resulted in a decision affirming the dismissal as to many of the claims and defendants. The dismissal was reversed, however, as to claims under 42 U.S.C. §1981 arising after March 10,…