No. 25-5483

Z. G. v. M. C.

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2025-08-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-10-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a judge who made stigmatizing statements about a disability contravened the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Due Process Clause by failing to grant a motion for recusal

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

The question presented is whether a judge who made a number of troubling statements that appear to have been motivated by stigma and stereotypes associated with a disability that affects petitioner contravened Title II, § 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to grant petitioner ’s motion for recusal.

Docket Entries

2025-10-20
Petition DENIED.
2025-10-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/17/2025.
2025-09-22
Waiver of right of respondent M C to respond filed.
2025-06-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 26, 2025)

Attorneys

M C
Brian E. McKinleyWilder & Mahood, Respondent
Z.G.
Z. G. — Petitioner