Grigorescu
Grigorescu v. Board of Trustees of the San Mateo County Community College District
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 4 5 VIOLETA GRIGORESCU, Case No. 18-cv-05932-EMC
6 Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT'S 7 v. MOTION FOR SUMMARY
JUDGMENT
8 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SAN
MATEO COUNTY COMMUNITY
9 COLLEGE DISTRICT, et al., Docket No. 100
10 Defendants.
11 12 I. INTRODUCTION 13 Plaintiff Violeta Grigorescu (“Ms. Grigorescu”) was a former lab technician and adjunct 14 professor at the College of San Mateo and the San Mateo Community College District (“District”). 15 Ms. Grigorescu was involved in an environmental organizing group and litigation against the 16 District that opposed the demolition of a campus garden to construct an additional parking lot 17 (“Friends litigation”). As the litigation was ongoing, the District and Ms. Grigorescu had a series 18 of employment disputes involving degree qualifications for teaching and abuse of leave 19 privileges. Defendant Eugene Whitlock (“Mr. Whitlock”) was the Vice Chancellor for Human 20 Resources for…