Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al.
AdministrativeLaw ERISA DueProcess Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Whether Indiana courts violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring a common law cause of action against third-party tortfeasors, and whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits creating 'joint employer' status based on corporate ownership
1. Whether the Indiana courts below violated Petitioner ’s Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring her from pursuing a common law cause of action against third -party tortfeasors, where the tortfeasor s are a separate and independent corporation and its employee. 2. Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the lower courts from rely-ing upon a judicial fiction in creating “joint employer ” status simply because separate and distinct sibling subsidiar y entities are owned by the same corporate parent .