Case Name: John HOWARD, Gary Fraser, and Glenroy Schad, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. RYDER TRUCK RENTAL, INC., aka Ryder System, Inc., aka Ryder Transportation Services, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-03-06
Citations: 561 F. App'x 588
Docket Number: No. 12-15530
Parties: John HOWARD, Gary Fraser, and Glenroy Schad, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. RYDER TRUCK RENTAL, INC., aka Ryder System, Inc., aka Ryder Transportation Services, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: TALLMAN and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and GARBIS, Senior District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 561
Pages: 588–588

Head Matter:
John HOWARD, Gary Fraser, and Glenroy Schad, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. RYDER TRUCK RENTAL, INC., aka Ryder System, Inc., aka Ryder Transportation Services, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 12-15530.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Feb. 14, 2014.
March 6, 2014.
Laura R. Ackermann, Esquire, James Lawrence Blair, Kevin Richard Myer, Re-naud Cook Drury Mesaros, PA, Phoenix, AZ, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Christopher Charles Hoffman, Esquire, Fisher & Phillips LLP, San Diego, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: TALLMAN and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and GARBIS, Senior District Judge.
The Honorable Marvin J. Garbis, Senior District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
John Howard, Gary Fraser, and Glenroy Schad (collectively, Plaintiffs) appeal the district court's entry of summary judgment in favor of their former employer, Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. (Ryder). They allege that their termination violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and that Ryder humiliated them by broadcasting their terminations on its closed-circuit television system.
1. Plaintiffs failed to raise a material issue of fact regarding whether Ryder's stated reason for their terminations was a pretext for discrimination. See Earl v. Nielsen Media Research, Inc., 658 F.3d 1108, 1113-14 (9th Cir.2011) (requiring the production of "specific and substantial" circumstantial evidence to raise a material issue of fact regarding pretext).
2. The district court acted within its discretion when it excluded Plaintiffs' expert's report from consideration. The expert's report addressed matters within the common knowledge of the average layperson, and thus, would not be helpful to the trier of fact. See Fed.R.Evid. 702; see also Ward v. Westland Plastics, Inc., 651 F.2d 1266, 1271 (9th Cir.1980) ("The question whether gender was the basis of differential treatment is not so technical as to require the aid of an expert to enlighten the jury or court.... ").
3. The district court did not err by granting summary judgment to Ryder on Plaintiffs' intentional infliction of emotional distress claim because Ryder's alleged conduct in broadcasting Plaintiffs' terminations on closed-circuit television monitors was not sufficiently "extreme and outrageous" as to constitute intentional infliction of emotional distress. Nelson v. Phoenix Resort Corp., 181 Ariz. 188, 888 P.2d 1375, 1386-87 (Ariz.Ct.App.1994).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.