Case Name: Arturo PACHECO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert ESTRELLA, A.C. Transit-Division 3-Richmond Facility, Transportation Supt. 201 21st St., Richmond, CA 94801, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-06-22
Citations: 385 F. App'x 673
Docket Number: No. 09-15931
Parties: Arturo PACHECO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert ESTRELLA, A.C. Transit-Division 3—Richmond Facility, Transportation Supt. 201 21st St., Richmond, CA 94801, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: CANBY, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 385
Pages: 673–674

Head Matter:
Arturo PACHECO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert ESTRELLA, A.C. Transit-Division 3—Richmond Facility, Transportation Supt. 201 21st St., Richmond, CA 94801, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 09-15931.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 25, 2010.
Filed June 22, 2010.
Arturo Pacheco, Vallejo, CA, pro se.
Cathleen Ann Wadhams, Esquire, Litigation Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Oakland, CA, for Defendant-Ap-pellee.
Before: CANBY, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Arturo Pacheco appeals pro se from the district court's order denying his motion for summary judgment and its sua sponte summary judgment for the defendant on Pacheco's claim that defendant discriminated against him on the basis of his race and national origin by refusing to return him to his position as a bus driver following his return from medical leave. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo summary judgment, Leever v. Carson City, 360 F.3d 1014, 1017 (9th Cir.2004), and we affirm.
The district court properly denied Pacheco's motion for summary judgment because Pacheco presented no evidence establishing a prima facie case of discrimination, and defendant presented un-controverted evidence that the motive for his decision was nondiscriminatory. See Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Prods., Inc., 530 U.S. 133, 148, 120 S.Ct. 2097, 147 L.Ed.2d 105 (2000) ("[A]n employer would be entitled to judgment as a matter of law if the record conclusively revealed some other, nondiscriminatory reason for the employer's decision, or if the plaintiff created only a weak issue of fact as to whether the employer's reason was untrue and there was abundant and un-controverted independent evidence that no discrimination had occurred.").
Contrary to Pacheco's contention, the district court properly granted summary judgment for defendant sua sponte because Pacheco "had a full and fair opportunity to ventilate the issues involved in the matter." Gospel Missions of Am. v. City of Los Angeles, 328 F.3d 548, 553 (9th Cir.2003) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted).
Pacheco's remaining contentions are unpersuasive.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.