No. 20-1500

Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius v. American Public University System, Inc., et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-04-27
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: civil-rights due-process education-program employment employment-status fair-labor-standards-act flsa-interpretation free-labor-system labor-exploitation student-employee student-rights thirteenth-amendment
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity ERISA DueProcess Securities WageAndHour
Latest Conference: 2021-06-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

At what point does a student become an 'employee' for an employer, due to the various types of abuses and exploitation of a free labor system, in an education program?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States court of appeals on the same important matter, such as Schumann. v. Collier Anesthesia, P.A., Case No: 2:12-cv347-FtM-29CM (M.D. Fla. Oct. 27, 2016) and disagreed with a historical case of the Fourth Circuit, Reich v. Shiloh True Light Church of Christ, 895 F.Supp. 799, 819 (W.D.N.C. 1995). “At what point does a student become an ‘employee’ for an employer, due to the various types of abuses and exploitation of a free labor system, in an education program?” 2. The District Judge had considered a federal question in a way that conflicts with other federal district decisions, like Winfield v. Babylon Beauty Sch. of Smithtown Inc., 89 F. Supp. 3d 556 (E.D.N.Y. 2015) and Marshall v. Baptist Hospital, Inc., 473 F. Supp. 465 (M.D. Tenn. 1979), and further conflicts with the “FLSA” 29 U.S. Code § 213(a)(1), 29 CFR § 541.3036), 29 CFR § 541.602(4); and this conflict transitions to state laws, such as California Education Code, Section 44462, and W.Va. Code §18A3-2, and this further moves into a parallel to modern violations of the Thirteenth Amendment by not defining “an employer employee relationship between the plaintiff and either Pressley Ridge or the WVDE.” Should student-teachers and teacher candidates be denied payment under all circumstances, denied employee status at a school, due to student status at a separate school or university? 3. Was the Fourteenth Amendment “Due Process Clause,” “Equal Protection Clause,” and Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution breached by the defendants, in the fashion that Mr. Siberius was terminated from a student-teaching position at Pressley Ridge at White Oak, for reporting child abuse, in accordance with state laws, contracts, freedom of speech, and scope of duty as a studentteacher? 4. In accordance with Fed.Rule Civ.Proc. 25(d) and Fed.Rule App.Proc. 43 and : Robinson v. Integrative Detention Health Services, No. 3:12-CV-20, (M.D. Ga. Mar. 28, 2014), Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority, 365 U.S. 715 (1961): can a corporation headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania be responsible for acting “ander color of law” in the State of West Virginia? 5. Astate agency waived its Eleventh Amendment “immunity” by voluntarily appearing in federal court. In Hafer v. Melo et al., 502 U.S. 21, 112 S. Ct. 358 (1991) the Court held that state officials “acting in their official capacities” are outside the class of “persons” subject to liability under § 1983 was reversed, and in Biggs v. Meadows, 66 F.3d 56 (4th Cir. 1995) that specifies the importance of the substance of a complaint rather than the named individuals, to sue individuals in official capacity and individual capacity, leaving the Courts to decide. See Kentucky v. Graham, 473 U.S. 159, 165-166 (1985). To what extent has the Courts erred in applying Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police, 491 U.S. 58, 71 (1989), given other rulings, and the specific context of the plaintiffs circumstance for civil action? 6. Cana school board be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983? 1

Docket Entries

2021-09-10
Rehearing DENIED.
2021-08-19
DISTRIBUTED.
2021-07-16
2021-06-21
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/17/2021.
2021-05-18
Waiver of right of respondent American Public University System, Inc. to respond filed.
2021-05-14
Waiver of right of respondent West Virginia Department of Education to respond filed.
2021-05-12
Waiver of right of respondent Pressley Ridge to respond filed.
2021-03-29
Application (20A152) denied by The Chief Justice.
2021-02-25
Application (20A152) to file petition for a writ of certiorari n excess of word limits, submitted to The Chief Justice.
2021-02-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 27, 2021)

Attorneys

American Public University System, Inc.
Larry J. RectorSteptoe & Johnson PLLC, Respondent
Larry J. RectorSteptoe & Johnson PLLC, Respondent
Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius
Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius — Petitioner
Machiavelli Farrakhan Siberius — Petitioner
Pressley Ridge
Ryan Anthony ZeliZimmer Kunz, PLLC, Respondent
Ryan Anthony ZeliZimmer Kunz, PLLC, Respondent
West Virginia Department of Education
James Victor FlanaganPullin Fowler Flanagan Brown & Poe, PLLC, Respondent
James Victor FlanaganPullin Fowler Flanagan Brown & Poe, PLLC, Respondent