No. 19-8174

Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2020-04-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw SocialSecurity DueProcess FifthAmendment Immigration Privacy
Latest Conference: 2020-06-04
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should senior legal officers be allowed to deny further appellate review when there is constitutional ground to grant it?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Should senior legal officers of the state court of last resort, such as the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, be allowed . ; to deny Petitioner Further Appellate Review when there is constitutional ground to grant it and to contradict its opinion in a . precedent, Christo v. Boyle Insurance Agency, Inc., 402 Mass. 815 . (1988), displaying circumstances from which legal principles equivalent . to the case at bar may be drawn, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and its federal equivalent, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment? 2. Would senior legal officers of the state court of last resort, such as the justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, be consenting to race-gender discrimination in contravention of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §2000d et seg.) and Title IX of the ‘Education Amendments Act of 1972 (20 U.S.C. §§1681-1688), as denying Petitioner Further Appellate Review simultaneously denies her a Superior Court judicial review of her race-gender discrimination complaint against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning (“MIT DUSP”)?

Docket Entries

2020-08-24
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-07-30
DISTRIBUTED.
2020-06-26
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-06-08
Petition DENIED.
2020-05-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/4/2020.
2020-04-30
Waiver of right of respondent Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination to respond filed.
2020-03-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 4, 2020)

Attorneys

Camille Mata
Camille T. Mata — Petitioner
Camille T. Mata — Petitioner
Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
Kristen DannayMassachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Respondent
Kristen DannayMassachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Respondent