Opinion ID: 753578
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Heading: Anderson's Claim

Text: 6 Filing a timely charge of discrimination with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) is a jurisdictional prerequisite to the filing of an action for damages under FEHA. See Cal. Gov't.Code § 12960. Plaintiffs have one year from the date of the alleged violation in which to file charges with DFEH. 7 DFEH has no record of any charges filed by Anderson prior to filing this action. Anderson's own uncorroborated and very generalized testimony that he filed a claim with DFEH prior to filing this action is not sufficient to raise a genuine issue as to whether or not he filed a claim. See Johnson v. Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority, 883 F.2d 125, 128 (D.C.Cir.1989) (discussing cases in which self-serving testimony uncorroborated by other evidence did not create a genuine issue of material fact). Anderson has acquired a right to sue letter from DFEH since filing this action, but his belated filing does not cure the jurisdictional defect in the present action. Summary judgment as to Anderson's claim was proper.