Vashisht-Rota
Vashisht-Rota v. Ottawa University
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Aparna VASHISHT-ROTA, Case No.: 20-cv-0959-AGS-KSC Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT’S
v.
MOTION TO DISMISS (ECF 49),
OTTAWA UNIVERSITY, CLOSING CASE, AND GRANTING
LEAVE TO AMEND
Defendant. 8 Plaintiff originally sued Ottawa University for disclosing to her former employer a confidential complaint she made about that employer. She amended her complaint to add claims that Ottawa helped her former employer harass her. Ottawa moves to dismiss, arguing that her new claims are late and that her complaint does not state a claim. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Dr. Aparna Vashisht-Rota alleges she works in the “niche market” of international student recruitment through “curricular practical training” programs. (ECF 48, at 3.) That is, students who “are in between visa classes (student to work)” “enroll in these so-called CPT programs that allow a university to issue work…