Hartman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SHANNON HARTMAN, et al., Case No. 22-cv-01591-AMO

Plaintiffs,

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

v. EQUITABLE RELIEF AND DENYING

AS MOOT MOTION TO SHORTEN

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, et al., TIME Defendants. Re: Dkt. Nos. 139, 150

Before the Court is Plaintiff Katie Lightfoot’s motion for equitable relief. While Title VII authorizes equitable remedies, such as reinstatement, those remedies are ordered “[i]f the court finds that the respondent has intentionally engaged in or is intentionally engaging in an unlawful employment practice charged in the complaint[.]” See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(g)(1); see also Proctor v. Consol. Freightways Corp. of Delaware, 942 F.2d 793 (9th Cir. 1991) (“If discrimination has occurred, Title VII aims to make the victims of unlawful discrimination whole by restoring them, so far as possible, to a position where they would have been were it not for the unlawful discrimination.”) (table decision). Here, no…