No. 22-5229

Gwendolyn Wilson v. Hillsborough Township Construction/Building Department, et al.

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2022-07-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing fourteenth-amendment municipal-services property-assessments racial-discrimination retaliation
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2022-10-07
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Equal Protection Clause is implicated by allegations of racial discrimination in municipal services and policies

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED : RULE 5.1 CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO A FEDERAL STATUE ‘ (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court, New Jersey erred in concluding that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutions not implicated by a complaint that alleges that ‘under the color of law’ lawenforcement officials, in response to an African American purchasing/ residing in a]home in a Caucasian suburban/ neighborhood/ community can be ‘targeted’ for differential treatment, services, discriminatory policies/practices, and retaliatory policies/ practices as it pertains to construction permits, and building inspections by the municipality solely and expressly on the basis of race, and to the exclusion of all nonracial identifying information. : (2) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court, : New Jersey erred in concluding that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitutions not implicated by a complaint that alleges that ‘under the color of law’ lawenforcement officials, in response to an African American purchasing/ residing in a home in a Caucasian suburban/ neighborhood/ community ‘targeted’ for differential treatment and different services, discriminatory policies/ practices, and retaliatory policies/ practices as it pertains to property assessments and taxation by the municipality solely and expressly on the basis of race, and to the exclusion of all nonracial identifying information. .

Docket Entries

2022-10-11
Petition DENIED.
2022-09-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/7/2022.
2022-07-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 29, 2022)

Attorneys

Gwendolyn Wilson
Gwendolyn Wilson — Petitioner
Gwendolyn Wilson — Petitioner