Lee v. Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TABIA LEE, Case No. 23-cv-03418-PCP
Plaintiff,
ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS
v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 34 FOOTHILL-DE ANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT, et al., 11 Defendants.
12 Dr. Tabia Lee brings this action against her former employer, De Anza Community College/the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, as well individual members of the District’s board of trustees and certain District employees. Her causes of action include claims under the First Amendment, Title VII, and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. For the reasons that follow, these three claims are dismissed with leave to amend. The other claims (which Dr. Lee concedes are not adequately pleaded) are dismissed without leave to amend. I. Background The following allegations from the complaint are accepted as true in resolving this motion. Dr. Lee is an educational sociologist. Complaint, Dkt. No. 27, at ¶ 21. In August 2021, De Anza Community College hired her as a full-time tenure…