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