Court Opinion

ID: 615063
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Date Created: 2011-10-08 00:02:48+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:50:32.017049
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FILED
                             NOT FOR PUBLICATION                             OCT 7 2011

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JEROME STRONG, Rev.,                             No. 10-15703

               Plaintiff - Appellant,            D.C. No. 4:08-cv-05209-SBA

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM *
MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER,

               Defendant - Appellee.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Northern District of California
                 Saundra Brown Armstrong, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted September 27, 2011 **

Before:        SILVERMAN, W. FLETCHER, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.

       Jerome Strong appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in

his employment action alleging race discrimination and sexual harassment in

violation of Title VII and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
(“FEHA”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo,

Leong v. Potter, 347 F.3d 1117, 1123 (9th Cir. 2003), and we affirm.

      The district court properly granted summary judgment on Strong’s race

discrimination claim because Strong failed to raise a genuine dispute of material

fact as to whether he performed his job satisfactorily, similarly situated individuals

outside his protected class were treated more favorably, or that Morgan Stanley’s

legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for terminating him were pretextual. See id.

at 1124-25; see also Brooks v. City of San Mateo, 229 F.3d 917, 923 (9th Cir.

2000) (same analysis applies to Title VII and FEHA claims).

      The district court properly granted summary judgment on Strong’s sexual

harassment claim because Strong failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact

as to whether the alleged conduct was because of his sex or was sufficiently severe

or pervasive to alter the conditions of his employment. See Oncale v. Sundowner

Offshore Servs., Inc., 523 U.S. 75, 79-82 (1998).

      Strong’s remaining contentions are unpersuasive.

      AFFIRMED.

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