No. 21-7770

Crystal Jackson v. Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2022-05-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: 7th-amendment causation civil-procedure employment-discrimination mixed-motive retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii trial-by-jury
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Latest Conference: 2022-11-18 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court, by sanctioning a summary judgment that was granted without a trial, where there are facts material to the case that were in genuine dispute

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Weather the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts , with relevant decisions of this Court, by sanctioning a summary judgment that was granted without a trial, where there are facts material to the case that were in genuine dispute. | 2. Weather the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | violates petitioner’s Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury. 3. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit properly dismissed petitioner's employment discrimination and retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq., where petitioner has provided copious evidence of facts. 4. Whether Title VII's retaliation provision and similarly worded statutes require a plaintiff to prove but-for causation (i.e., that | an employer would not have taken an adverse employment | action but for an improper motive), or instead require only , proof that the employer had a mixed motive (i.e., that an , improper motive was one of multiple reasons for the 7 employment action). | |

Docket Entries

2022-11-21
Rehearing DENIED.
2022-11-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/18/2022.
2022-10-21
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-06-09
Waiver of right of respondent Sheraton New York Times Square to respond filed.
2022-04-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 3, 2022)

Attorneys

Crystal Jackson
Crystal Jackson — Petitioner
Crystal Jackson — Petitioner
Sheraton New York Times Square
Keya DennerFordHarrison, LLP, Respondent
Keya DennerFordHarrison, LLP, Respondent