Legal Opinion
Carmen v. San Francisco Unified School District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 16, 2001No. 98-16555PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:
This case turns on summary judgment procedure. The issue is whether a judge must consider materials outside the motion papers and things referred to therein.
Facts
Plaintiff Gwendolyn Carmen holds state certification to teach elementary school. For many years, she worked as a day to day substitute teacher in San Francisco. Though she does not speak, read or write Chinese, she worked as a long-term substitute teacher in a fifth grade Chinese bilingual class during the 1991-92 school year. She had a Chinese-speaking teacher’s aide.
Carmen lost the long-term substitute…
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