SANDRA S. BECKWITH, Senior District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on Defendant University of Cincinnati Physicians, Inc.'s motion to dismiss Counts Five and Seven of Plaintiff's Complaint. Doc. No. 10. For the reasons that follow, Defendant's motion to dismiss is well-taken and is
For purposes of the pending motion, the Court accepts the following factual allegations from the complaint as being true.
Plaintiff Elias Anaissie is a physician of Middle Eastern origin. Complaint ¶¶ 5, 6. He is also a "qualified individual" within the meaning of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
In March 2014, UCP required Plaintiff to undergo a fitness for duty evaluation without any just cause. Complaint ¶ 12. He completed the evaluation under protest.
Plaintiff filed a complaint with the EEOC alleging that he was terminated because of his age, disability, and Middle Eastern ancestry. Complaint Ex. A. Plaintiff received a right-to-sue letter from the EEOC in July 2015. Complaint Ex. B.
Plaintiff filed an employment discrimination complaint against UCP in October 2015. Count One alleges that UCP terminated Plaintiff in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act ("ADA"). Count Two alleges that UCP violated the ADA by failing to accommodate Plaintiff's disability. Count Three alleges that UCP violated the ADA by requiring Plaintiff to take an unlawful medical examination. Count Four alleges that UCP violated the ADA by retaliating against him for seeking legal counsel. Count Five alleges that UCP violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by terminating Plaintiff "in part because of his Middle Eastern ancestry." Complaint ¶ 31. Count Six alleges that UCP violated the Ohio Civil Rights Act by terminating Plaintiff because of his disability. Finally, Count Seven alleges that UCP violated the Ohio Civil Rights Act by terminating Plaintiff because of his national origin.
UCP now moves to dismiss Plaintiff's national origin discrimination claims in Counts Five and Seven for failure to state claims for relief. UCP argues that Plaintiff's national origin discrimination claims provide no factual detail and are too conclusory to state claims for relief. Plaintiff thinks that his national origin counts state claims for relief but asks the Court to grant him leave to amend his complaint in the event the Court concludes that these claims are deficiently pled. Plaintiff, however, has not submitted a proposed amended complaint for the Court to evaluate.
A motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim operates to test the sufficiency of the complaint. The court must construe the complaint in the light most favorable to Plaintiff, and accept as true all well-pleaded factual allegations.
The complaint, however, must contain more than labels, conclusions, and formulaic recitations of the elements of the claim.
The Court agrees with UCP that Plaintiff has made only conclusory allegations of national origin discrimination. His complaint alleges only that he is of Middle Eastern ancestry and that he was terminated although he was performing his duties capably. Those bare allegations, however, are insufficient to plausibly infer that UCP terminated Plaintiff in part because of his national origin.
Plaintiff's request for leave to amend the complaint without tendering the proposed amended complaint for the Court to review is improper. Plaintiff is not entitled to an advisory opinion on the defects in his complaint. Accordingly, Plaintiff's request to amend the complaint is denied.
For the reasons stated herein, Defendant's motion to dismiss Counts Five and Seven of Plaintiff's complaint is well-taken and is