Court Opinion

ID: 4149529
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Date Created: 2017-03-01 21:01:15.797465+00
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FILED
                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION
                                                                           MAR 01 2017
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                         U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOAN M. JOJOLA; ELEANOR                          No.   14-17481
BARCELON; JAYANN JACKSON;
CATHRYN LUM,                                     D.C. No.
                                                 2:14-cv-01492-JCM-GWF
              Plaintiffs-Appellants,

 v.                                              MEMORANDUM*

AMERICAN PACIFIC CORPORATION;
JULIE BUCKMAN,

              Defendants-Appellees.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                             for the District of Nevada
                     James C. Mahan, District Judge, Presiding

                          Submitted February 15, 2017**
                            San Francisco, California

Before: CANBY, SILER,*** and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      ***
            The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, United States Circuit Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.
      Joan M. Jojola, Eleanor Barcelon, Jayann Jackson, and Cathryn Lum

(“Plaintiffs”) appeal the district court’s dismissal of their complaint for failure to

state a claim upon which relief can be granted. They argue that the district court

(1) erred by dismissing the complaint for failure to state a claim under Federal Rule

of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), and (2) abused its discretion by granting the

defendants’ motion to dismiss prior to a scheduled Early Neutral Evaluation

(“ENE”) session. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

      1. The district court properly dismissed Plaintiffs’ federal employment

discrimination and Nevada state law claims. Plaintiffs’ complaint fails to state

claims for employment discrimination based on gender, race, and religion because

it lacks facts plausibly suggesting that Plaintiffs experienced “explicit or

constructive alterations in the terms or conditions of employment” due to their

status in a protected class. Burlington Indus., Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742, 752

(1998); see Starr v. Baca, 652 F.3d 1202, 1216 (9th Cir. 2011). The complaint

also fails to set forth facts establishing plausible claims under Nevada state law for

intentional infliction of emotional distress and unjust enrichment. Nelson v. City of

Las Vegas, 665 P.2d 1141, 1145 (Nev. 1983) (listing elements of an intentional

infliction of emotional distress claim); Coury v. Robison, 976 P.2d 518, 521 (Nev.

1999) (unjust enrichment). Plaintiffs did not present to the district court

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independent claims for declaratory and injunctive relief. They cannot do so for the

first time on appeal. Marbled Murrelet v. Babbitt, 83 F.3d 1060, 1063 (9th Cir.

1996).

       2. The district court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing Plaintiffs’

complaint before the scheduled ENE session. Neither this court’s case law nor the

District of Nevada’s local rules preclude a Nevada district court from ruling on a

dispositive motion prior to a scheduled ENE session. See D. Nev. Local Rule 16-6.

       3. Plaintiffs argue that this court should consider the Nevada Department of

Employment, Training and Rehabilitation’s (DETR) decision awarding Jackson

unemployment benefits. See . The DETR’s decision is not part of the record on

appeal, as Plaintiffs failed to present it to the district court. Kirshner v. Uniden

Corp. of Am., 842 F.2d 1074, 1077 (9th Cir. 1988). And the DETR’s decision is

not relevant to the question whether the Plaintiffs’ complaint states a claim for

relief. See Cuellar v. Joyce, 596 F.3d 505, 512 (9th Cir. 2010). We therefore deny

Plaintiffs’ request for judicial notice.

       AFFIRMED.

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