Smith v. California Department of Highway Patrol

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

JAMES DONATO, United States District Judge

INTRODUCTION

In 2010, while applying to be a cadet with defendant, the California Highway *1176Patrol .(“CHP”), plaintiff Nicole Summer Smith suffered an incident that she describes as sexual harassment and that the CHP concedes was inappropriate. Smith stuck with the cadet application process after that incident and eventually was recommended for hire by the CHP, but she voluntarily terminated her candidacy. In the complaint, Smith says she walked away from the job because…