Navarro
Navarro v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
19 On December 29, 2018, Plaintiff filed her employment discrimination and retaliation 20 lawsuit under Title VII. Doc. 1. On May 13, 2019, the Court entered an order granting 21 Defendant Secretary of Homeland Security’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff’s Complaint. 22 Doc. 23. As relevant here, the Court ruled that the named defendants, U.S. Immigration 23 and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) and Plaintiff’s two supervisors, were not proper 24 defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16 because for purposes of a Title VII action, (1) the 25 agency itself is not a proper defendant, and (2) there is no cause of action for damages 26 against supervisors or fellow employees. See Doc. 23 at 5. The Court then dismissed 27 Plaintiff’s Complaint without prejudice, cautioning that “[w]hen deciding whether to re- 28 file her lawsuit, Plaintiff would do well to heed our Ninth Circuit jurisprudence on the parameters within which an individual may sue the federal government under Title VII.” Id. at 6 (citing cases regarding requirement that plaintiff name the proper defendant within the statute of limitations). In addition, the Court expressly declined to decide…