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25A741 Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC Third Circuit 2025-12-23 Application administrative-adjudication article-three h-2a-visa labor-dispute private-rights separation-of-powers Question not identified.
25A682 Medical Staffing of America, LLC, dba Steadfast Medical Staffing, a Limited Liability Company, et al. v. Lori Chavez-Deremer, Secretary of Labor Fourth Circuit 2025-12-10 Application economic-realities-test employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor statutory-interpretation worker-status Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act requires courts to apply a uniform, predictable test for distinguishing between employees and independent contrac…
25-6282 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2025-12-04 Dismissed administrative-law due-process homeland-security labor-department osha-complaint whistleblower-protection 1. Whether or Not the Second (2nd) Cir. C.O.A. Departed Far from the Accepted & Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings, As to Call for an Exercise of th…
25A652 Zbigniew M. Laskowski v. Washington Department of Labor & Industries Washington 2025-12-03 Application certiorari-petition disability-accommodation judicial-process legal-representation pro-se time-extension Whether a pro se litigant with a disability can obtain an extension of time to file a Supreme Court certiorari petition when facing challenges in secu…
25A493 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2025-10-30 Application None Question not identified.
25-5766 Jonathan Valentin v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industries Third Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation Whether the First and Fourth Amendment constitutional protections of free speech, due process, and equal protection continue to be denied in a civil r…
25A22 Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete certiorari circuit-court good-cause pro-se statutory-interpretation time-extension Whether a pro se litigant's multiple petitions for certiorari from different circuit court judgments should be considered timely under the 90-day stat…
24-1309 East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor Third Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied circuit-split compensable-time fair-labor-standards-act preliminary-activities principal-activities statutory-interpretation Whether time spent on 'integral and indispensable' activities is measured based on reasonable duration or actual duration
24-1186 Alvin Boone, et al. v. Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied covid-19 executive-orders mitigation-measures public-health religious-exemption workplace-safety Whether Executive Orders of the Illinois Governor requesting state agencies and public employers to impose mitigation measures allegedly to prevent th…
24-1171 Nursing Home Care Management, Inc., dba Prestige Home Care Agency, et al. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor Third Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied department-of-labor employee-compensation fair-labor-standards-act notice-requirement portal-to-portal-act willful-violation Whether an employer's single prior interaction with the DOL is sufficient to establish notice of FLSA provisions for future alleged willful violations…
24-1169 Amanda Jackson v. Methodist Health Service Corporation, dba UnityPoint Health - Central Illinois Seventh Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied covid-19 executive-orders mitigation-measures public-health state-agencies workplace-safety Whether Executive Orders of the Illinois Governor requesting state agencies and public employers to impose mitigation measures allegedly to prevent th…
24-1150 Clyde O. Carter, Jr. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-09 Denied administrative-law burden-of-proof employment-retaliation federal-railroad-safety-act judicial-review whistleblower-protection Whether the burden of proof in a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower complaint is prima facie or preponderance of evidence
24A1064 Robert Mayfield, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act exempt-status fair-labor-standards-act legislative-vesting-clause minimum-salary-requirements nondelegation-doctrine Whether the Department of Labor exceeded its statutory authority under the Fair Labor Standards Act by imposing minimum salary requirements as a condi…
24A990 East Penn Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary, Department of Labor Third Circuit 2025-04-16 Presumed Complete None
24-784 Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the SEC v. Chenery Corp. rule to Black Lung Benefits Act cases, contrary to other circuit court interpretati…
24-626 F.W. Webb Company v. Vincent N. Micone, III, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor First Circuit 2024-12-06 Denied administrative-exemption employment-law fair-labor-standards-act judicial-interpretation labor-regulations regulatory-compliance Whether the First Circuit's 'relational analysis' improperly determines FLSA administrative exemption by focusing on employer's business instead of em…
24-232 Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied administrative-law constitutional-delegation executive-power federal-contractors minimum-wage procurement-act Whether the Procurement Act authorizes the President to require federal permittees to pay their employees a minimum wage and whether such delegation v…
24A7 Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-determination employment-status judicial-review tenth-circuit worker-classification Whether the Administrative Procedure Act permits judicial review of a Department of Labor determination regarding worker classification and employment…
23-1286 Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., et al. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied attorneys-fees circuit-split equal-access-to-justice-act expert-evidence federal-agency judicial-review litigation-standards substantial-justification Whether the government's decision to take a case to trial is 'substantially justified' under the Equal-Access-to-Justice-Act when the government's cas…
23-1283 Doris Lapham v. Walgreen Co. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied adverse-employment-action causation causation-standard circuit-split department-of-labor department-of-labor-regulation employment-law employment-retaliation family-medical-leave-act fmla retaliation Whether 29 U.S.C. § 2615(a)(1) prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee who has exercised her rights under the FMLA
23-7576 Solomon A. Jones v. Georgia Department of Labor, et al. Georgia 2024-05-28 Denied civil-rights due-process employment-law in-forma-pauperis minimum-wage pandemic service-of-process sovereign-immunity unemployment-benefits unemployment-insurance Can unemployment insurance benefits be denied to persons whose employment is terminated through no fault of their own?
23-7336 Weili Cao-Bossa v. New York State Department of Labor Second Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied civil-procedure due-process factual-errors genuine-issues judicial-discretion legal-errors legal-merits motion-to-dismiss procedural-technicality summary-judgment Can summary judgment be granted solely on failure to respond timely or not in detail?
23-1077 Mark Wilson v. Schlumberger Technology Corporation Tenth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied administrative-exemption executive-exemption fair-labor-standards-act professional-exemption reasonable-relationship salary-basis Whether an employer who pays an employee a guaranteed weekly amount that exceeds the salary level test and who is also paid additional compensation on…
23-6852 Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied ada-compliance administrative-law appeals civil-procedure disability-law federal-courts jurisdiction social-security standing venue Did the Eleventh Circuit Court have legal jurisdiction to hear and rule on this case?
23A678 Jerome Yelder v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Sixth Circuit 2024-01-23 Presumed Complete covid-19 decision-order extraordinary-relief judicial-proceedings pro-se supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant's lack of original decision order documentation due to COVID-19 circumstances constitutes grounds for extraordinary relief o…
23A636 Weili Cao-Bossa v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2024-01-09 Presumed Complete civil-service-law employment-discrimination negligent-misrepresentation rule-of-three statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether a state agency's alleged discriminatory hiring practices and fabricated declination letter violate New York's Civil Service Law Section 61 and…
23-706 Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied 29-usc-216b collective-action employment-law exemptions fair-labor-standards-act overtime-pay procedural-joinder salary-basis wage-exemption whether an employee is paid on a salary basis for purposes of the EAP exemptions to the FLSA and its implementing regulations, 29 CFR. § 541.604(b), i…
23-586 United Behavioral Health, et al. v. D. K., et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied administrative-record benefits-denial erisa health-benefits judicial-review substantial-evidence treating-provider Is an ERISA-governed plan that denies health benefits required to discuss contrary opinions from the member's treating providers in the decision lette…
23A497 KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-01 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference mine-safety national-cement-doctrine statutory-ambiguity Whether the National Cement doctrine of judicial remand for agency reinterpretation is unconstitutional and whether Chevron deference should be overru…
23-473 James E. Bachman, et al. v. John Q. Bachman, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights department-of-labor due-process employment employment-retaliation equitable-defenses fair-labor-standards-act labor-law retaliation standing wage-dispute Whether a case can be dismissed for plaintiffs' refusal to answer questions related to past and current employers in a deposition related to a wage an…
23-182 James W. Tindall v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied 1st-amendment administrative-procedure article-iii constitutional-review federal-sovereign-immunity first-amendment judicial-power judicial-review sovereign-immunity standing strict-scrutiny us-constitution Whether the doctrine of federal sovereign immunity has any basis in the U.S. Constitution
22-7657 Annecia M. Fort v. Department of Labor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied 49-usc-31105 coercion-prohibition drive-time-limits electronic-logging-devices internal-reporting motor-carrier motor-carrier-regulations public-safety public-safety-reporting staa whistleblower-protection Is disclosing public safety concerns to your management (internal reporting) a protected activity?
22-1136 In Re Robert Steven Mawhinney 2023-05-22 Denied administrative-law due-process employment-contract federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judicial-review labor-law nondiscretionary-duty statutory-interpretation Does 49 U.S.C. § 42121 provide the means to invalidate the exemption incorporated in 9 U.S.C. §1 and allow the deviation of the nondiscretionary duty …
22A980 Sandra Immerso v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2023-05-09 Presumed Complete None
22-1027 The Dutra Group, Inc., et al. v. Kelly Zaradnik, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied administrative-law agency-review appellate-jurisdiction benefits-review-board judicial-review longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation workers-compensation Whether appellate courts can restrict the limited jurisdiction of the Benefits Review Board
22-918 Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied administrative-role economic-reality fair-labor-standards-act federalism joint-employment overtime-wages social-services-program suffer-or-permit-to-work Whether a county may be deemed a joint employer under the FLSA when it plays a mere administrative role in a State's social services program by legisl…
22-762 Robert Kreb v. Department of Labor Ninth Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion agency-review arbitrary-and-capricious employee-protection employee-protection-rights evidentiary-burden standard-of-review statutory-interpretation What is the appropriate standard of review when an agency administrative law judge abuses their discretion, is arbitrary and capricious or otherwise u…
22A618 Robert Kreb v. Department of Labor Ninth Circuit 2023-01-10 Presumed Complete None
22-6470 Mary Ann Ellis v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence standing witness Question not identified
22-583 Evan Greebel v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as 'earnings' subject to the CCPA's…
22-6367 Randall Bernard Allen v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-action individual-rights rule-of-law standing takings Where government, state and city administrations are regulators, can The Rule of Law, and U.S.Constitutional rights be abandoned for those administrat…
22-479 Steven Onysko v. Martin J. Walsh, Secretary of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-deference circuit-court-conflicts circuit-court-review safe-drinking-water-act standard-of-review summary-judgment whistleblower-protection Whether the Tenth Circuit applied the wrong standard of review under the Administrative Procedure Act
22-5933 Gennett M. Holmes-Smith v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied civil-rights damages due-process federal-jurisdiction medical-malpractice standing Whether the federal court had jurisdiction to hear the case against the hospital and Department of Labor
22-258 Wayne B. Holstad, et al. v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied administrative-law agency-authority civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review statute-of-limitations takings Whether a statute of limitations is a due process requirement, and if so, what statute of limitations is applicable to this case?
22-208 Benoit Brookens v. LaRhonda Gamble, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-08 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-regulation labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act labor-union-rights standing statutory-interpretation Whether the DC Circuit is bound by the Federal Regulation 29 CFR 458.1 interpreting 29 U.S.C. Sec. 411 concerning standards of conduct
22A185 Mary Ann Ellis v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Fifth Circuit 2022-08-29 Presumed Complete None
22-150 Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy Federal Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning
21-1490 Arvind Gupta v. Marty Walsh, Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. Second Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied employment-standards h-1b-visa immigration-compliance immigration-nationality-act labor-department labor-law nonimmigrant-worker prevailing-wage settlement-agreement wage-requirements working-conditions Whether employers can have legally enforceable private settlement agreement with the nonimmigrant worker to pay less than the wages required under the…
21-1441 Emanuel McCray v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration Sixth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied administrative-law agency-rulemaking constitutional-authority constitutional-interpretation executive-authority federal-constitution legislative-power occupational-safety public-health separation-of-powers What is the appropriate constitutional authority embodied in Articles I and III and the Tenth and Thirteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that …
21-1387 Erik Leckner v. General Dynamics Information Technology, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied 2nd-amendment administrative-law brown-vs-board civil-rights cybersecurity-risk due-process free-speech retaliation-claim sarbanes-oxley standing whistleblower-protection Whether the court of appeals failed to recognize that SOX whistleblower protections does extend to cybersecurity risks and breaches
21-1350 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-sanctions constitution constitutional-precedent free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-review petition precedent strict-scrutiny Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate the APA, Constitution, and precedent
21A507 Arvind Gupta v. Marty Walsh, Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-15 Presumed Complete None
21-1180 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure discovery due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing whether-a-federal-court-may-disbar-an-attorney
21A293 Aaron Abadi v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-05 Presumed Complete None
21A267 FabArc Steel Supply, Inc., et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-22 Presumed Complete None
21A260 Bentkey Services, LLC, dba The Daily Wire v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-21 Presumed Complete None
21A243 Job Creators Network, et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A244 National Federation of Independent Business, et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A245 Phillips Manufacturing & Tower Company, et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A246 The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A247 Ohio, et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A248 BST Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A249 The Heritage Foundation v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A250 Word of God Fellowship, Inc., et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A251 Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A252 Scott Bedke, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, et al. et al. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A258 Republican National Committee v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21A259 Betten Chevrolet, Inc. v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-20 Presumed Complete None
21-849 Slidewaters LLC v. Washington Department of Labor and Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied emergency-powers executive-authority legislative-authority legislative-delegation nondelegation-doctrine police-power separation-of-powers state-governance state-of-emergency Does a state legislature's delegation of unlimited and inherently legislative police power to a state executive violate the separation-of-powers, even…
21-813 Michael Peck v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied civil-rights congressional-intent energy-reorganization-act nrc-employment nuclear-regulatory-commission sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation whistleblower whistleblower-protection Did Congress waive sovereign immunity for NRC whistleblowers?
21-640 Five Star Automatic Fire Protection, L.L.C. v. Department of Labor Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied burden-shifting civil-rights class-action due-process evidentiary-rule fair-labor-standards-act overtime-pay representative-testimony wal-mart-v-dukes In light of Dukes and Tyson Foods, is this an important decision of a federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court?
21-627 Air Transport Association of America, Inc., dba Airlines for America v. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied airline-deregulation-act carrier-prices-routes-services circuit-split federal-law morales-v-trans-world-airlines preemption state-law statutory-interpretation transportation-regulation Whether the Airline Deregulation Act preempts neutral state laws that have a significant impact on carrier prices, routes, or services, even if that i…
21-558 Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, et al. v. The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied civil-rights congressional-review-act due-process employee-retirement erisa erisa-preemption fiduciary-duty payroll-deduction pension retirement state-mandated-savings state-regulation Whether California's CalSavers program requiring private employers to automatically debit employee paychecks and surrender those earnings to the State…
21-5510 Prayed v. Department of Labor, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-management labor-management-relations lmrda lmrda-interpretation procedural-due-process standing union-representation Has the Petitioner's substantive rights been abridged, a violation of 28-USC-2072(b), by the Court rules and procedures effecting encroachment of an A…
21-205 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor Second Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied administrative-procedure-act administrative-record default-judgment department-of-labor frap-17 local-rules res-judicata sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction Should an unopposed default judgement be granted because the Department of Labor did not submit the full administrative record to the court as require…
20-8413 Michael T. Brooks v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Ninth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied None
20-1781 Frederick B. Wright v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied adverse-action federal-water-pollution-control-act motivating-factor reasonable-belief safe-drinking-water-act whistleblower-protection Whether an employer's professing motivating factor should override a whistleblower employee's reasonable belief of retaliation
20-1761 Jennifer Berrier, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry v. Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission Third Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied compact-clause constitutional-law delaware-river-commission delaware-river-joint-toll-bridge-commission interstate-compact sovereign-authority state-sovereignty third-circuit-court-of-appeals Do compacting States, simply by creating an interstate compact, relinquish all sovereign authority over that compact entity unless expressly reserved?
20-1658 Thomas Rimini v. Department of Labor First Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied administrative-exhaustion appellate-procedure civil-procedure department-of-labor federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure non-waiver-mandate sarbanes-oxley subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the First Circuit lack subject-matter-jurisdiction to rule while an earlier-filed Sarbanes-Oxley matter with identical causes of action is not yet…
20-8107 Gregory Turner v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-government labor-investigation merit-system merit-system-protection-board veterans-preference Did the petitioner seek to get appeal heard by the Veteran's Employment and Training Service of U.S. Department of Labor
20-1327 PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention is applicable and the district court may decline jurisdiction when there is a state administrative proceeding brought under…
20-7320 Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Washington 2021-03-03 Denied administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation Whether the appellate court must apply de novo review where the trial judge failed to make specific findings on the prosecution's justifications for o…
20-1013 Clarence J. Simon v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied administrative-procedure benefits-disqualification collateral-estoppel compensation-benefits lhwca-section-33(g) longshore-worker longshore-workers-compensation maritime-law settlement-authority third-party-settlement Is a longshore worker permanently disqualified from receiving any benefits from his employer due to a tentative third-party settlement?
20-942 Christopher L. Buie v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied administrative-findings discrimination-claims employee-protection issue-preclusion substantial-evidence surface-transportation-assistance-act unsafe-acts vehicle-operation Does the 'refuses to operate' clause under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act afford protection to employees who refuse to commit unsafe acts w…
20-861 Arlene Fry v. Rand Construction Corporation Fourth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied bostock-v-clayton-county burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation-standard circuit-split employment-action fmla-claim fmla-retaliation legal-interpretation motivating-factor negative-factor Whether the lower court erred in adopting a 'sole cause' standard for FMLA retaliation claims, in direct conflict with this Court's holdings in Burrag…
20-6111 Dorothy Moore v. Board of Review, New Jersey Department of Labor, et al. New Jersey 2020-10-22 Denied civil-rights due-process employment free-speech government-retaliation standing Whether the petitioner's unemployment benefits were denied based on the First Amendment right to free speech
20-458 Michael B. Brown v. Department of Labor Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure deposition-modification evidence factual-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure petition-for-review regulatory-compliance sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection Whether a judge's change of a party's transcribed deposition is an appropriate factual finding, conclusion, and decision
20-5924 Patricia Wynn v. Mark Butler, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Labor, et al. Georgia 2020-10-06 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure court-intervention due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-proceedings legal-review procedural-standards supervisory-power Whether the Court below so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as to call for an exercise of this Court's supervi…
20-420 Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent Whether lower courts may disregard FOIA-judicial-review-provisions,administrative-procedure-act,federal-rules-of-civil-procedure,federal-rules-of-evid…
20-241 Jack Jordan v. Department of Labor District of Columbia 2020-08-28 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-action attorney-client-privilege circuit-court-review foia freedom-of-information-act judicial-review rule-60 summary-judgment Whether district court and circuit court review of agency action under FOIA must comport with the APA
19-7584 Vina Yazzie v. Mohave County, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection termination title-vii zero-tolerance When was Ms. Yazzie hired into the Mohave County?
19-7499 Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Second Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacle(d)…
19-856 Los Angeles County, California v. Trina Ray, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied administrative-law due-process fair-labor-standards-act federal-preemption labor-law non-enforcement-policy overtime-wages sovereign-immunity state-action state-agency Whether a county, which acts as an agent of the state in administering a state social welfare program, is an arm of the state entitled to sovereign im…
19-719 Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation Colorado 2019-12-06 Denied ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing Whether an offender's ability to pay is relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amen…
19-641 Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC Colorado 2019-11-18 Denied 8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require…
19-451 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Jeff McCord, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Sixth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-of-appellate-procedure-due-p court-clerk-duties default-judgment due-process electronic-filing pro-se-litigation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit incorrectly dismissed the civil action in conflict with existing rules of appellate p…
19A207 Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC, et al. Colorado 2019-08-21 Presumed Complete None
19-198 Adriano Kruel Budri v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied commercial-motor-vehicle fifth-circuit-guidance logging-time on-duty-not-driving on-duty-time protected-activity surface-transportation-assistance-act transportation-regulations Whether the Panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for 5th Circuit has provided legal guidance about the safety related issue of logging time for repair a…
19-182 Francisca Guillen v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied california-labor-code california-law district-court-discretion electronic-records employee-protection employee-rights jury-instructions labor-code labor-law labor-standards-enforcement statutory-interpretation wage-statements Whether it was error not to instruct a jury on the law set forth in almost 20-years of opinions of California's Department of Labor Standards Enforcem…
19M37 Collin S. Osbourne v. New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development New Jersey 2019-08-08 Presumed Complete None
19-86 Maria Jordan v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-adjudication appellate-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review Whether the Administrative Procedure Act, as applied to Petitioner by the Fifth Circuit, is unconstitutional
19-51 Ben Branch, et al. v. Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations, et al. Massachusetts 2019-07-08 Denied bargaining-representative civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights due-process exclusive-representation first-amendment free-speech political-activity political-autonomy public-employee state-action union-representation Whether a public employee union's use of its government-granted authority as exclusive bargaining representative to compel employees to choose between…
19-23 Rockwood Casualty Insurance Company v. Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied administrative-procedure-act agency-regulations agency-rulemaking black-lung-benefits-act burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidentiary-standards regulatory-amendment standing Does requiring a wrongly-named Responsible Operator to issue benefits to a Claimant with normal pulmonary function and normal arterial blood gas testi…
18-8716 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-04-05 Denied 107th-congress congressional-act constitutional-provisions employment-rights federal-funding job-placement jurisdiction public-law public-law-107-288 state-obligations state-services statutory-provisions us-jobs-for-veterans-act veterans-affairs veterans-benefits veterans-services What services are owed to all veterans by states that accept federal funding under the US Jobs for Veterans Act (Public Law 107-288, 107th Congress)?
18-1266 Timothy P. O'Leary v. Aetna Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied adverse-benefits-determination arbitrary-capricious benefits-determination civil-procedure claims-procedures department-of-labor erisa erisa-statute erisa-statute-and-regulations fiduciary-duties fiduciary-duty standard-of-review Does a fiduciary's decision take priority over compliance with ERISA statute and regulations?
18-1032 Robert Steven Mawhinney v. American Airlines, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied air-carrier-employee air21-complaint air21-discrimination air21-discrimination-complaint arbitration-provision department-of-labor dol-investigation employment-discrimination federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-exemption ninth-circuit-error pre-dispute-arbitration pre-dispute-arbitration-provision settlement-agreement statutory-federal-regulation statutory-interpretation Determining whether an air carrier employee's AIR21 discrimination complaint can be subject to a pre-dispute arbitration provision
18-7775 Joseph F. Olivares v. Michigan Workers' Compensation Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing statute-of-limitations takings workers-compensation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions?
18-971 Faye R. Hobson v. James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense Sixth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied ada administrative-exhaustion chevron-deference civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling fmla pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation rehabilitation-act standing title-vii Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be expanded to include a pro se party's mistaken belief about filing deadlines
18-6288 Jesse Cooley, Jr. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mental-health mental-stress physical-health physical-stress retaliation workers-compensation Whether the petitioner's workers' compensation claim was improperly denied
18-6074 Crystal Nicole Kuri v. Kansas Department of Labor, Employment Security Board of Review Kansas 2018-09-21 Denied civil-rights college discharge due-process employment suspension termination Whether the college's termination of the employee's employment violated the employee's due process rights
18-143 Sandra Lee Bart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr…
18-101 Patrick Jon Evers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied 18-usc-1920 decisionmaking-body false-representation false-statements federal-benefits federal-benefits-fraud federal-workers-compensation fraud materiality materiality-standard perjury workers-compensation Can false representations be 'material' for purposes of 18 USC §1920 where such representations were neither addressed to the decisionmaking body nor …