Court Opinion

ID: 2757780
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Date Created: 2014-12-04 21:00:57.410962+00
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                             DEC 04 2014

                                                                         MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SUSAN BAILEY,                                    No. 13-15320

               Plaintiff - Appellant,            D.C. No. 3:12-cv-01486-WHA

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.; et al.,

               Defendants - Appellees.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Northern District of California
                     William Alsup, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted November 18, 2014**

Before:        LEAVY, FISHER, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

       Susan Bailey appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing

her diversity action alleging hostile work environment and retaliation claims under

California’s Fair Employment Housing Act (“FEHA”). We have jurisdiction under

28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a district court’s grant of a motion for

          *
             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).
judgment on the pleading under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c). Harris v. County of Orange,

682 F.3d 1126, 1131 (9th Cir. 2012). We affirm.

      The district court properly dismissed Bailey’s action because Bailey failed to

allege facts sufficient to state a hostile work environment or retaliation claim under

the FEHA. See Lyle v. Warner Bros. Television Prods., 132 P.3d 211, 220 (Cal.

2006) (elements of hostile work environment claim under FEHA); Yanowitz v.

L’Oreal USA, Inc., 116 P.3d 1123, 1130 (Cal. 2005) (elements of a retaliation

claim under FEHA); see also Cal. Gov’t Code § 12940(j)(1) (an employer is liable

under FEHA if it “knows or should have known” of the unlawful conduct and

“fails to take immediate and appropriate corrective action”).

      The district court did not abuse its discretion by denying Bailey’s motion for

leave to file an amended complaint because amendment would have been futile.

See Hartmann v. Cal. Dep’t of Corr. & Rehab., 707 F.3d 1114, 1129-30 (9th Cir.

2013) (setting forth standard of review and explaining that a “district court may

deny leave to amend when amendment would be futile”).

      AFFIRMED.

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