Opinion ID: 8704897
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Sex Discrimination and Retaliation Claims

Text: Addressing the Second Amended Complaint, the Court earlier dismissed allegations that the District violated Title VII and the DCHRA because Unity was Ms. Konah’s employer, not the District. See 815 F.Supp.2d at 70-71 (citing, inter alia, Redd v. Summers, 232 F.3d 933 (D.C.Cir.2000)). Those counts were dismissed without prejudice because the Second Amended Complaint neither alleged that Ms. Konah was a District employee nor put forth facts that might allow a court to find that the District was a joint employer. Id. In the instant Complaint, as she did before, Ms. Konah acknowledges that she worked for Unity but again states that “[h]er employment status with the District of Columbia has to be determined.” Compl. ¶¶ 5, 6. Ms. Konah has not corrected the flaws that led the Court to dismiss her Title VII and DCHRA claims against the District. The same analysis applies now. Her claims based on Title VII and the DCHRA as against the District — Count I, discrimination based on sex, and Count III, retaliation — will be dismissed, with prejudice, because the District was not her employer. 18 Further, the Court notes that Ms. Konah’s EEO charge complained only against Unity as her employer, not the District. 19