No. 19-7641

Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al.

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-02-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection
Key Terms:
Arbitration SocialSecurity ERISA Securities
Latest Conference: 2020-04-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend protections for public university employees who report research misconducts which fraud, wast, and abuse federal funded programs?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend protections for public university employees who report research misconducts which fraud, wast, and abuse federal funded programs? 2. Whether U. S. Supreme Court should exclude the state immunity when a public university violated federal constitutions, laws and regulations (such as First Amendment, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) and allow public university employees to sue their employers at federal courts for retaliations and discriminators? 3. Whether the district court and the court of appeals has any responsibility to request federal agencies to assist an investigation when concerns of government corruptions were arisen? 4. Whether the 6" court of appeals made mistakes when they determined the validation of the settlement/release agreement from a related old case 13-10469?

Docket Entries

2020-08-03
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-07-09
DISTRIBUTED.
2020-05-15
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-04-20
Petition DENIED.
2020-04-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
2020-03-27
Reply of petitioner Yusong Gong filed. (Distributed)
2020-03-13
Brief of respondents University of Michigan, et al. in opposition filed.
2020-01-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 13, 2020)

Attorneys

University of Michigan, et al.
David J. MassonOffice of the Vice President & General Counsel, Respondent
David J. MassonOffice of the Vice President & General Counsel, Respondent
Yusong Gong
Yusong Gong — Petitioner
Yusong Gong — Petitioner